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INTIMATE   SOCIETY   LETTERS   OF 
THE  EIGHTEENTH   CENTURY 

VOL.   II 


FORB€S  UBRARY, 
NORTHAMPTON,  MASS. 


INTIMATE    SOCIETY 
LETTERS 


OF    THE 


EIGHTEENTH     CENTURY 


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THE    DUKE   OF   ARGYLL,    K.T. 


WITH    I'OKl'HAITS,    FACSIiMILES,    AND    OTHER 
ILIJJSTRATIONS 


IN    TWO    VOLUMES 


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CONTENTS 

VOL.    II 

LETTERS  FROM  THE  DUKE  OF  HAMILTON  AND 

DOCTOR  MOORE  TO  THE   DUCHESS    OF  HAMILTON 

AND  ARGYLL,  ETC. 

PAGE 

Introduction 329 

Correspondence 330 


CORRESPONDENCE  BETWEEN  VARIOUS  MEMBERS 

OF    THE    DUKE    OF    ARGYLL'S    FAMILY    AND 

HIGH  OFFICERS  OF  STATE 

John,  Fifth  Duke  of  Argyll       .        .        .        .433 
Correspondence 434 

LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL 
Introduction 477 

^  LETTERS    FROM    \^RGINIA    FROM    GEORGE 

cvi  WASHINGTON    AND    OTHERS 

5^  Correspondence 482 

:  ^  THE    EXPEDITION    TO    HOLLAND    IN    1799 

— 3 

Correspondence 494 

V 


vi  CONTENTS 

A    SCOTTISH    ELECTION    A    CENTURY    AGO 

PAGE 

Introduction 503 

Correspondence 503 


LETTERS    FROM    LORD    JOHN    CARIPBELL    WHILE 
TRAVELLING  ON  THE  CONTINENT  IN  THE  YEAR  1803 

Correspondence 514 


LETTERS  FROM  M.  DE  SAUSSURE 

Introduction 522 

Correspondence  with  Translations    .        .        .     522 

LETTERS    OF    MADAME    DE    STAEL 

Introduction 557 

Correspondence  with  Translations  .        .        .581 

LETTERS     FROM     LORD     JOHN     CAMPBELL     TO 

MISS  GLASSELL,  WITH  HER  LETTERS  FROM 

THE  CONTINENT,   ETC. 

Correspondence 632 

VARIOUS    LETTERS 

Correspondence 649 

Love  and  Reason,  by  Thomas  Moore         .        .     675 

Index 677 


LIST   OF   ILLUSTRATIONS 


VOL.   II 

Elizabeth,  Duchess  of  Hamilton  and  Argyll  (Photo- 
gravure) ........      Frontispiece 

PAC'ING   PAGE 

Douglas,  Duke  of  Hamilton,  with  Dr.   Moore  and 

John  Moore  (afterwards  General)         .         .         .     340 


John,  Fifth  Duke  of  Argyll 

Field-Marshal  John  Campbell,  Duke  of  Argyll 

After  Gainsborough 

Letter  from  George  Washington 

Portrait  of  George  III  .... 

Chateau   of   Coppet,   Residence    of   Mme. 
Lake  of  Geneva         .... 

Geneva  in  Mme.  de  Stael's  Time     . 

Mme.  de  Stael 

Lord   John  Campbell,  the   "  Nelville  "   of 
Stael's  "  Corinne  "    . 

Ajter  Edridge 

Chateau  of  Coppet  

From  an  old  print 

Caricature  of  Mme.  de  Stael 

Hy  Kirkpatrick  Sharp 

Chateau  of  Coppet  ..... 
Chateau  of  Coppet  ..... 
Lord  John  Campbell    .... 

Miniature 

Chateau  of  Coppet 

vii 


DE  Stael, 


Mme.  de 


432 
476 

482 
500 

528 
552 
556 

560 

568 

574 

584 
586 
620 

626 


viii  LIST   OF   ILLUSTRATIONS 

FiCIN'a  PAGE 

Letter  from  Roy  Roy 649 

Verses    Addressed    by    Sir    Walter    Scott   to    Lady 

Chablotte  Campbell 652 

Opening  Lines  and  Signature  of  Letter  from  Felicia 

Hemans  to  Lady  John  Campbell      ....     662 

Letter  from  Baron  Citvieb 664 

Orders,    with   Superscription,    Found    on    Field    of 

Waterloo 672 

Verses,  Love  and  Reason,  by  Thomas  Moore       .         .     676 


Intimate  Society  Letters  of  the 
Eighteenth  Century 


LETTERS  FROM  THE  DUKE  OF  HAMILTON 

AND    DOCTOR   MOORE   TO   THE 

DUCHESS    OF    HAMILTON 

AND   ARGYLL,    ETC. 

17G2-1782 

The  following  letters  from  Dr.  ^loore,  the  father 
of  the  "  Hero  of  Corunna,"  are  interesting, 
for  they  show  the  impressions  made  on  an 
English  gentleman's  mind  by  society  in  various 
capitals  of  Europe  in  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  care  the  writer  takes  of  the  Duke  of 
Hamilton,  then  a  handsome  and  rather  delicate 
youth,  and  the  candour  with  which  he  describes 
the  young  man's  foibles  and  love-makings,  do 
him  credit.  The  letters  written  with  no  idea 
of  publication,  and  giving  pictures  of  the 
leading  people  at  Rome,  Florence,  Vienna,  who 
all  received  the  Duke  most  cordially,  are  re- 
freshingly spontaneous.  On  their  return  to 
England,  Dr.  Moore  appears  to  have  devoted 
himself  to  literature,  publishing  his  "View  of 
Society  and  Manners  in  France,  Switzerland, 
Germany,  and  Italy  "  in  four  volumes  in  1779-81, 
and  his  well-known  novel  "  Zeluco  "  in  1780. 
Douglas  Duke  of  Hamilton,  the  second  son  of 

VOL.   U.  329  1 


S30     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Elizabeth  Gunning-  by  her  first  marriage,  died 
in  1799.  Pompeio  Battoni's  portrait  of  him, 
painted  in  Rome,  gives  the  idea  of  a  handsome 
youth  of  good  physical  power ;  but  both  he  and 
his  brother  James  George,  the  writer  of  the  first 
six  letters  following,  were  delicate  of  constitution, 
and  seem  to  have  inherited  the  weakness  of  the 
chest  which  killed  the  mother  in  1790. 


The    boy   Duke    of    Hamilton    to    Lady    Susan 
Stewart,  whom  he  playfully  calls  his  Wife. 

HoLYROOD  House,  6  Dec.  [probably  1762]. 

Dearest  Lady  Susan, 

I  was  very  much  delighted  with  your 
letter,  not  only  as  it  informed  me  that  my 
Dear  Mama  and  Lady  Betty  were  safe  in  France, 
but  also  as  it  is  a  proof  that  you  have  not 
forgotten  me.  Lady  Galloway  tells  me  I  must 
call  you  Wife  no  more  and  that  you  are  only 
joking  with  me.  I  am  sure  it  is  the  pleasantest 
joke  I  ever  was  concerned  in,  and  I  beg  we 
may  carry  it  on.  I  fancy  all  the  world  is 
joking  with  me  too,  for  there  is  not  a  Lady 
that  visits  me  but  offers  me  her  sister,  her 
niece,  her  daughter,  or  herself.  I  heartily  wish 
them  all  good  husbands,  but  will  reserve  myself 
for  my  dear  Lady  Susan.  You  tell  me  there 
are  little  boys  with  you  that  read  delightfully 
and  know  everything.  I  know  what  you  mean 
by  that,  and  indeed  I  will  not  pretend  to  so 
high  a  character,  but  I  will  every  day  strive  to 
improve,  especially  as  I  find  that  will  make  me 
still  dearer  to  my  Wife  (for  I  must  call  you  so), 
and  hope  that  you  will  always  think  me 
Y""  affec*''  Husband. 

Hamilton. 


DUKE    OF    HAMILTON  331 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  Lady  Susan  Stewart, 

HoLYROOD  House,  Jan.  IS  [probably  17G3]. 

You  could  not  have  made  me  happier  than 
by  sending  such  good  news  unless  you  had 
brouglit  it  yourself.  But,  my  dear  Lady  Susan, 
no  more  trouble  yourself  about  the  fine  young 
ladies  that  visit  me,  for  a  letter  from  you  has 
more  charms  than  the  finest  of  them  all.  But 
I  am  a  little  uneasy  at  your  always  reminding 
me  that  I  ought  to  love  my  Mama.  I  am 
sure  I  would  rather  die  than  forget  to  love 
her,  and  so  Lord  Douglas  *  says.  I  gave  him 
the  Kiss  that  you  sent  him,  and  I  think  he 
would  have  been  better  pleased  if  you  had  not 
called  it  a  little  one.  I  am  very  glad  that 
Lady  Chariot  Edwin  is  so  fond  of  us.  Tell  her 
that  we  long  to  be  acquainted  with  her,  and 
if  you  know  anything  good  or  pretty  in  us, 
tell  her  that  too,  but  tell  her  nothing  but 
the  Truth,  for  while  you  are  speaking  of  my 
behaviour  (and  then  only)  I  would  have  you 
forget  that  I  love  you  dearly  and  that 

I  am  your  husband 
Hamilton  and  Brandon. 

I  trouble  myself  so  little  with  Titles,  and 
am  so  little  used  to  anything  but  Hamilton,  that 
I  never  thought  of  Brandon. 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  Lady  Susan  Stewart. 

March  21  [probably  1763]. 

My  dear  Wife, 

You  can't  imagine  what  joy  your  letter 
occasioned    among    us    all.     I    was    particularly 

*  Afterwards  Duke  also. 


332     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

pleased  with  your  dutiful  as  well  as  affectionate 
way  of  writing  to  your  husband.  There  is 
nothing  I  wish  to  see  so  much  as  my  Mama 
return  quite  recovered.  But  tell  me,  do  you 
think  Lady  Betty  will  be  as  good  a  romp  as 
ever  ?  I  hope  her  dancing  has  not  spoiled  her. 
I  too  have  a  Dancing  master,  a  fine  Frenchman, 
by  whose  assistance  (as  he  informs  me)  I  shall 
become  a  very  extraordinary  Person.  Lord 
Douglas  [his  brother]  does  not  believe  him,  for 
he  does  not  envy  me  his  instructions,  though 
in  almost  everything  he  wishes  to  equal,  and 
even  to  excell  me.  Nor  do  I  find  him  a  Rival 
to  be  trifled  with,  for  he  has  begun  the  Bible, 
and  Mr.  Church  says  he  reads  it  prettily.  How- 
ever I  will  strive  to  keep  him  still  at  a  distance, 
for  fear  I  should  no  longer  be  the  favourite  of 
my  Mama  and  for  fear  you  sh'^  be  ashamed  to 
own 

Your  husband 

Hamilton  and  Brand: 

We  are  all  very  well. 
The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  Lady  Susan  Stewart, 

[Probably  1764.] 

Dear  Toutie, 

I  received  your  letter  last  Thursday  and 
at  the  same  time  a  long  long  letter  from  Jack. 
I  assure  I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for  your  s — n, 
hum ;  his  M — y  to  be  sure  was  very  gracious. 
I  was  too  hasty  in  calling  the  President  [of  the 
Court  of  Session,  presiding  at  the  Douglas 
Cause  Trial]  a  fool :  he  has  knocked  up  the 
Duchess  of  Douglas ;  he  has  declared  himself 
jor  lis — for  us — mark  that  now,  for  us.     Is  not 


DUKE    OF    HAMILTON  333 

that  curious  ?  and  this  moment  we  have  heard 
the  cause  is  won.  Give  my  respects  to  the 
Prince  and  Princess.  I  have  just  finished  a 
letter  to  Lord  Nors.  Akenliead  is  making  such 
a  noise  in  the  Room  I  can't  right  no  more.  I 
am,  Dearest  Toutie,  your  affectionate  husband 
and  sincere  friend, 

Hamilton  and  B. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Abgyle  house, 
August  19,   1765, 

Dear  Duchess, 

I  am  very  sorry  that  my  eye  has  prevented 
my  writing  before,  to  tell  you  what  a  desolate 
place  Argyle  house  is  now  you  are  absent :  the 
walls  are  bare,  the  rooms  deserted,  &  in  short  I 
am  miserable.  I  am  very  much  obliged  to  Lord 
Lorn  for  his  thirty  shillin's,  but  I  wish  your 
Grace  would  join  your  mite  too,  for  I  am  afraid 
I  shan't  see  you  before  we  go  to  Eton. 
I  am  your  most  dutiful  1  son, 

Hamilton,  &c. 

{Addressed)  To  her  Grace  the  Duchess  of 
Hamilton. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Eton,  Sep'"  6,  1765. 

Dear  Duchess, 

I  am  sorry  you  took  my  letter  so  seriously, 
for  tho'  I  should  have  been  much  happier  to 
have  seen  you  there  yet  I  was  not  in  reality 
miserable  ;  what  I  said  was  only  a  way  of 
speaking,  which  many  another  person  has  used 


334     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

before  now.     Your  mite  was  not  small,  but  if 
it  had  been  much  less  it  would  have  satisfied 

Your  dutiful  son, 

Hamilton,  &c. 

Pray    give   my    love   to    Lord    Lome    &    my 
sisters  &  likewise  to  Miss  Semple. 

(Addressed)  To  her  Grace  the  Duchess  of 
Hamilton. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

An   Inhabitant  of  Ancient  Athens  or  Rome 
could  not  have  been  more  agreeably  Surprized 
had  he  seen  Minerva  with  a  Distaff  attended 
by    two    of    the    Graces    Standing    among    his 
Household  Gods,  than  I  was  to  find  the  Dutchess 
of   Argyle   Spining   in   my   Parlour   with   Lady 
Betty  on  one  side  and  Lady  Augusta  on  the 
other.     Mrs.    Moore    declares    she    would    have 
given  five  Guineas  (that's  the  sum  she  always 
swears  by)  that  she  had  been  in  Glasgow  yester- 
day, and  is  exceedingly  Vexed  at  the  comfortless 
Reception  Your  Grace  met  with  in  her  House. 
In  vain  do  I  Represent  that  I  had  Informed  you 
of  her  having  been  in  the  Countery  these  two 
months,  and  could  not  be  Responsible  for  a  house 
and  Servants  she  had    not  seen  for  that  time. 
But  all  won't  do.     Had  it  been  any  body  but 
the  Dutchess  she  says  I  might  have  forgott  it. 
But  the  Person  on  Earth  to  whom  I  would  wish 
to   show  Attention   to   have  met   with   Such   a 
Reception  at  my  House  !     In  short  the  Woman 
is  Inconsolable,  and  except  you  actually  give  her 
some  opportunity  of  Displaying  her  Zeal  I  don't 
know  what  effect  it  may  have  on  her  Under- 


DR.    MOORE  335 

standing,  w'h  having  hitherto  been  uncommonly 
good  I  would  not  wish  to  see  demolislied.     De- 
pending therefor  on  your  Graee's  Good  Nature, 
I  remain  with  all  possible  Respect, 
Your  ever  obed't  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

Galston,  June  29,   1771. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Glasgow,  Oct.  22nd,  1771. 

Your  Grace  will  remember  certain  observa- 
tions that  pass'd  at  Inverary  concerning  Lady 
Betty's  Temper  and  Dispositions,  and  what 
might  possibly  be  her  Fate  in  Marriage.  These 
Dwelt  on  my  thoughts  afterwards  and  produced 
the  hasty  lines  which  I  enclose. 

They  express  my  Idea  of  her  character,  which 
I  do  think  more  form'd  for  happiness  than  any 
I  ever  saw.  Many  Tempers  Require  not  acci- 
dental and  external  misfortunes  to  Render  them 
miserable,  they  carry  a  never-failing  source  of 
wretchedness  in  their  own  Breasts.  It  must  be 
something  without  that  can  make  Lady  Betty 
Unhappy,  for  within  all  is  Peace,  Gayity,  and 
Joy. 

As  for  the  Wishes  with  which  these  lines 
conclude,  your  Grace  will  believe  they  proceed 
from  my  heart — for  whatever  opinion  you  may 
entertain  of  my  Judgement  I  dare  swear  you 
have  no  Doubt  of  my  Sincerity,  particularly 
when  I  express  attachment  to  your  Family. 

Notwithstanding  what  you  Insinuated  about 
Judgement  (which  your  Grace  will  observe  has 
made  some  Impression),  yet  I  flatter  myself 
that  upon  the  whole  I  possess  Your  favourable 


336     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

opinion.     If  I  am  mistaken,  I  hope  I  shall  never 
have  Judgement  enough  to  find  it  out  till  the 
Day   of   Judgement   itself.     Till   which   time   I 
Remain  Your  Graee's  most  obed't, 
Most  humble  serv't, 

John  Moore. 

As  I  have  Inclosed  these  lines  to  your  Grace 
I  have  ommited  the  last.  Let  the  company  at 
Inverary  trie  to  make  it  out.  If  they  cannot 
I  shall  send  it  to  Lady  Betty  afterwards. 


Lord  Galloway  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Aix  EN  Provence,  llth  Febr'y,  1772. 

Dear  Dutchess, 

Altho  the  great  distance  from  this  place 
to  London  has  for  some  time  interrupted  our 
correspondence,  yet  your  grace  may  be  assur'd 
that  nothing  can  either  alter  or  diminish  the 
regard,  respect,  and  esteem  I  have  for  your 
grace,  nor  my  reall  concern  for  Duke  Hamilton, 
and  every  thing  that  regaurds  him.  As  your 
grace  Avrote  me  that  you  intended  that  the  Duke 
should  go  abroad  in  the  spring,  I  suppose  he'll 
soon  now  be  ready  to  sett  out.  I  have  been  att 
some  pains  to  inform  myself  as  to  the  academy 
that  may  be  thought  the  most  proper  for  him 
to  go  to ;  that  will  depend  much  upon  his  dis- 
position, and  inclination  to  go  on  or  not  with 
his  studys,  and  ought  to  determine  it  in  a  great 
measure.  There  are  a  couple  of  academies  and 
universitys  in  Auvergne,  one  att  Clermont,  the 
other  at  Riom,  both  very  private  places  and 
very  rarely  any  british  at  either ;  att  both 
those  places  the  professors  and  masters  are  said 


LORD    GALLOWAY  337 

to  be  perfectly  good,  and  where  a  young 
gentleman,  if  he  pleases  to  apply,  may  aequire 
a  very  compleat  education,  but  the  masters 
for  the  different  exercises  are  not  so  good  as 
in  some  other  places ;  at  Riom  they  are  too 
much  taken  up  with  little  gambling,  but  not 
att  Clermont. 

As  to  there  not  being  the  best  masters  for  the 
Exercises,  the  Duke  is  so  young,  he'll  have  full 
time  to  make  up  that  even  two  years  hence. 
If  he  proposes  only  to  aequire  the  french  and 
Italian  languages  (latin  or  greek  I  dispair  of), 
and  as  much  of  the  mathematics  as  is  necessary 
and  every  young  gentleman  ought  to  have,  that 
may  be  gott  almost  at  every  academy  in  f ranee. 
I'm  very  well  inform'd  that  all  the  exercises  are 
at  present  in  the  greatest  perfection,  and  the 
young  gentlemen  kep't  in  the  greatest  regularity 
and  good  order,  att  Angers.  The  academy  att 
Lyons  is  of  late  come  into  great  reputation,  and 
it's  thought  that  there's  not  any  in  france  where 
a  young  gentleman  may  improve  himself  more 
effectually  in  the  languages,  all  the  exercises, 
and  the  polite  studys  more  than  there,  and 
tliere  very  few  British  subjects,  which  is  no 
inconsiderable  advantage. 

Mr.  Andrew  Stewart  will  gett  a  full  and 
distinct  account  from  Lord  Dalrymple  of  every 
thing  relating  to  Geneva,  so  that  I  need  say 
nothing  about  it.  I  don't  take  it  upon  me  to 
give  any  opinion  or  advice  as  to  the  place  wliere 
his  grace  ought  first  to  go.  I  think  that  ought 
to  be  left  to  Mr.  Andrew  Stewart,  who  I  take 
it  for  granted  is  to  go  along  with  him,  to  go  to 
whatever  place  shall  be  advis'd  as  the  most 
proper,  and  to  continue  or  remove  elsewhere  as 
he  shall  find  upon  a  tryall  may  probably  answer 


338     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

the  best  the  purpose  of  his  grace's  improve- 
ment. I'm  very  sensible  that  all  I  have  said 
is  to  very  little  purpose,  but  my  concern  and 
anxiety  for  the  Duke  made  me  throw  out  some 
little  hints  which  your  grace  will  make  what  use 
of  you  please.  I  shall  only  add,  there's  no 
academy  in  france  where  Mr.  Church  can  be  of 
any  use  to  the  Duke ;  on  the  contrary  I'm  sure 
his  being  with  him  would  be  a  disadvantage. 

I  have  been  here  about  three  months ;  my 
health  has  not  been  good,  and  I  have  had  almost 
constantly  some  ailment.  I  intend  to  return  to 
Britain  next  summer.  I  shall  be  happy  to  wait 
upon  your  grace,  either  in  London  or  Scotland. 
Allow  me  to  offer  my  best  wishes  and  respectful 
compliments  to  the  Duke  of  Argyle.  With  my 
kindest  and  most  affectionate  compliments  to 
Duke  Hamilton  and  Lady  Betty,  with  the 
greatest  regaurd  I  have  the  honour  to  be,  Dear 
Dutchess, 

Your  grace's  most  devoted  and  most 
faithfull  humble  servant, 

Galloway. 

My  daughter  Phemie  begs  leave  to  offer  her 
most  respectfuU  compliments.  If  your  grace 
will  please  honour  me  with  your  commands, 
address,  a  miLord,  Le  comte  de  galloway  a  aix 
en  provence,  La  France. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  Munday,  July  4,   1772. 

I  intended  to  have  wrote  to  your  Grace  by 
the  last  post,  but  finding  that  the  Duke  had 
wrote,  I  delayed  till  this  day  that  you  might 


DR.    MOORE  339 

receive  acc'ts  of  him  by  both  posts.  He 
happened  to  read  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Moore  to 
me,  and  was  uneasy  when  he  found  that  your 
Graee  had  been  indisposed.  I  have  assured 
him  that  you  must  now  be  ahiiost  perfectly 
well,  of  which  your  letter  to  him  is  a  proof.  I 
pray  Heaven  I  may  not  be  mistaken  in  this 
particular. 

I  wrote  some  time  ago  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll 
that  the  Duke  was  exceedingly  fond  of  driving 
in  a  Cabriolet,  that  as  the  weather  was  exces- 
sively hot  and  as  they  generally  Drive  Standing 
this  Exercise  was  too  severe,  that  it  over  heated 
him,  threw  him  into  violent  sweats,  and  some- 
times raised  a  pain  in  his  breast,  which  made 
me  averse  to  his  continuing  this  exercise.     Not- 
withstanding of  this,  however,  he  had  become 
so  prodigiously  enamoured  of  a  new  Cabriolet 
that  a  Fellow  had  to  sell  that  I  was  affraid  he 
would  be  obliged  to  purchase  it,  tho'  the  man 
demanded  £100  for  the  Cabriolet  independant 
of  the   Horses.     Since  that  time   I   have  been 
able  to  perswade  the  Duke  against  this  purchase, 
which  I  am  very  glad  of  because  I  am  certain 
the  new  Guilded  Cabriolet  would  have  been  a 
temptation  to  make  him  take  too  much  of  this 
exercise    and    would    have    proved    detrimental 
both  to  his  health  and  studies.     He  now  talks 
of  having  a  couple  of  horses,  and  indeed  I  should 
prefer  Riding  to  every  exercise  for  the  Duke. 
He  desired  me  to  write  about  having  a  couple 
sent  from  England.     Your  Grace  may  mention 
this  to   the   Duke   of   Argyll.     Perhaps   Scotch 
Galloways  may  be  the  properest,   at  least  one 
might   be   of   that   kind.     If   your   Grace    finds 
there  will   be  much   difficulty  in  this  we  must 
endeavour   to   procure   them   here.     It   will   be 


340     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

time  enough  by  tlie  months  of  Oct'r  or  Nov'r, 
if  they  can  be  here  by  that  time.  At  present  it 
is  far  too  hot  for  riding. 

Your  Grace's  conjectures  with  regard  to  the 
Girls  were  not  very  wide  of  the  truth.  He 
became  exceedingly  fond  of  the  eldest,  so  much 
as  to  bring  him  into  the  habit  of  Rising  in  the 
morning.  Ilis  sleeps  were  short  and  broken  by 
Dreams  of  this  same  Girl ;  he  became  serious 
and  pensive,  changed  coulours  as  often  as  She 
came  into  the  Room,  and  never  was  happy  out 
of  her  sight.  I  was  alarmed  at  all  this,  and  so 
was  the  Duke  himself.  I  prevailed  on  him  to 
bind  himself  in  the  most  formal  Manner  upon 
his  Honour  to  Inform  me  of  every  thing,  not 
only  his  actions  but  his  thoughts.  In  the  mean 
time  I  laboured  to  free  him  of  this  nonsensical 
Passion,  and  painted  the  Girl  (who  is  in  Reality 
a  very  line  Lassie)  in  so  many  Ridiculous  and 
unlovely  colours  and  attitudes,  that  this,  joined 
to  his  natural  fickleness  and  to  a  want  of  delicacy 
on  certain  points  (common  to  French  women) — 
in  short  all  contributed  to  his  cure,  and  he  is 
now  indifferently  well.  As  for  the  Girl  herself, 
she  never  was  much  affected.  Neither  his 
Passion  nor  his  Indifference  seem  to  have  had 
the  smallest  affect  on  the  invariable  Gayity  of 
her  Temper.  The  youngest  Miss  has  been 
generally  in  the  countery ;  besides  the  Duke 
never  took  much  notice  of  her,  and  she  appears 
fully  as  easie  about  him.  None  of  the  effects 
of  this  Short  but  Violent  passion  Remain  except 
the  habit  of  Rising  in  the  Morning,  which  is 
some  small  Indemnification  for  the  Plague  it 
gave  Both  to  the  Duke  and  me. 

If  there  were  no  English  here  I  believe  in  my 
coneience  the  Duke  would  do  in  every  respect 


IMtUfil.AS.     DIM-:    (i|-     IIAMII.IIt.N.     \\n\l     l>l<.     IKIDHi:    AM)    .Ii»ll\     >li>l»HK 
(aII  i;U\\  AHDS    <;K.M:HAr,) 
p.  340] 


^°'-^-r:^t;3. 


DR.    MOORE  341 

well.     lie  has  upon  some  occasions  applied  with 
considerable  attention,  and    I   have  sometimes 
flattered  myself  that  I  had  inspired  him  with 
a  Curiosity  and  Taste  for  some  very  necessary 
parts  of  Knowledge.     But  it  is  not  in  my  power 
to  prevent  his  bein.f^  oftener  with  some  of  the 
English  than  is  to  i3e  wished,  the  never  failing 
effect  of  which  is  to  lead  him  into  Idleness  and 
expence  and  totally  prevents  every  kind  of  Im- 
provement.    Your  Grace  will  not  imagine  that 
I  Reckon  among  this  number  all  the  English 
which  are  in  this  place.     There  is  particularly 
Mr.  Neville's  Family,  where  the  Duke  has  oppor- 
tunities of  being  sometimes,  and  where  he  always 
finds   the   Best   Society   to   be   had   here.     The 
Company  I  would  wish  to  Abstract  the  Duke 
from  is  that  of  Idle  young  men  Devoid  of  Ex- 
perience, knowledge,  or  Taste,  and  who  under 
the  show  of  studying  at  Geneva  are  as  Idle  as 
any   of  the  Subalterns  of  the  Foot  Guards  in 
London.     I    endeavour,    however,    in   the    least 
Rebuting  Manner  I  can,  to  lead  him  to  Manly 
Pursuits,  and  as  his  Mind  strengthens,  I  have 
the   better   chance   of   Success,    especially   as    I 
plainly  see  that  tho'  he  yields  to  their  projects 
I'rom  the  easyness  of  his  Temper,  yet  he  has  no 
Real  enjoyment  when  he  throws  away  his  hours 
in  frivolous  company. 

With  sincere  wishes  for  your  Grace's  perfect 
recovery, 

I  remain  your  ever  obed't  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

Knowledge  and  the  Love  of  Science  is  of 
great  use  to  every  man,  but  I  am  convinced  it 
is  of  more  than  usual  consequence  to  Duke  H. 
than  to  most  young  men.     When  his  mind  is 


342     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

unemployed  he  flies  to  everything  for  amuse- 
ment, and  if  he  does  not  acquire  good  habits  he 
will  acquire  Bad.  Your  Grace's  Ideas  have 
great  weight  with  him,  and  I  am  always  happy 
when  in  your  letters  you  seem  to  wish  and 
expect  that  he  is  to  turn  out  a  man  of  Solid 
Judgement  and  Virtuous  Ambition — and  when 
you  talk  w'h  contempt  of  an  over  SoUicitude 
about  the  nice  punctilios  of  Dress  or  running 
into  the  extravagance  of  Fashion.  I  have  in- 
closed a  figure  of  the  Duke  cut  by  Mrs.  Upton. 
It  is  thought  very  like. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll, 

Geneva,  Munday,  Sept.   13th,  1772. 

The  Duke  wrote  your  Grace  a  letter  in  French 
about  eight  days  since  to  which  I  added  a 
postcript.  We  have  had  no  letter  from  any  of 
the  Family  since  the  20th,  when  I  received 
your  Grace's  letter  dated  the  Sixth  of  last 
month.  I  expect  there  will  be  some  this  day, 
and  I  would  willingly  have  seen  it  before  I 
wrote,  but  in  that  case  I  must  have  delayed 
till  next  Friday. 

The  Duke  is  in  perfect  health.  We  continue 
to  Bathe  in  the  Lake  four  or  five  times  a  Week 
without  Regarding  the  Weather,  which  is  a  very 
new  thing  here,  where  nobody  Bathes  but  when 
the  weather  is  warm  and  Serene.  The  degree 
of  warmth  of  the  water  in  this  Lake  does  not 
depend  so  much  on  the  temperature  of  the  Air 
as  upon  the  dryness  of  the  Weather ;  after  Rain 
there  is  such  a  quantity  of  water  comes  from 
the  Neighbouring  Alps  and  Glaciers,  which  are 
always  covered  with   Snow  and   Ice,   that  the 


DR.    MOORE  343 

Lake  becomes  as  Cold  as  it  is  possible  for  Un- 
frozen water  to  be.  The  Duke,  however,  throws 
himself  in  headlong  without  hesitation,  and  the 
other  day  when  we  could  not  remain  in  the 
water  above  a  Minute  and  had  just  begun  to 
Put  on  our  cloaths — My  Lord,  said  I,  a  Whole 
Evening  with  Madam  Salle  would  not  Bribe 
you  to  take  another  Plunge.  He  threw  down 
his  shirt  in  an  instant  and  dashed  himself  in. 
This  ought  to  give  your  Grace  a  Strong  Idea  of 
the  Duke's  health  and  hardness,  for  the  water 
was  so  Cold  that  it  Cut  my  Breath,  and  tho' 
dared  by  the  Duke  I  had  not  courage  to  Return 
to  the  Charge.  Upon  these  Occasions  we  have 
the  Whole  Lake  to  ourselves.  We  shall  continue 
this  Amusement  all  this  Month,  and  perhaps 
Next,  as  I  am  convinced  the  Duke  has  Received 
Great  benefit  from  it.  With  regard  to  study, 
I  can  assure  your  Grace  it  has  never  been  Neg- 
lected ;  we  are  at  sometimes  more  in  the  train 
than  at  others,  but  there  never  passes  a  day 
in  which  something  is  not  done.  The  Duke 
has  made  more  than  one  Tour  round  the  Globe, 
and  he  is  familiarly  acquainted  with  all  the 
Countries  of  Europe,  and  the  European  Settle- 
ments in  Asia,  Affrica,  and  America,  and  has 
a  pretty  good  General  Idea  of  the  present  State 
of  most  Countries.  We  proceed  also  in  Par- 
ticular History,  especially  in  that  of  Europe 
since  the  Revival  of  Letters. 

The  Duke  has  opportunities  of  seeing  as  much 
Company  as  he  inclines ;  he  has  Received  Invi- 
tations to  be  in  some  of  the  best  Societies  of  this 
Place  during  the  Winter,  and  I  make  no  doubt 
of  his  passing  his  time  both  Usefully  and  Agree- 
ably. We  had  a  large  Company  a  few  nights 
ago,    among   whom   were    the    Prince   Gallizin, 


3U     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

two  Levonian  Noblemen,  the  Comte  de  Beau- 
veron,  a  very  Agreeable  young  Frenchman, 
liord  Mohun,  and  some  English  Gentlemen ; 
this  is  the  only  thing  like  an  Entertainment  he 
has  given  Since  he  came  to  Geneva. 

We  Dine  to-morrow  with  Mons.  et  Madame 
Saussure,  a  celebrated  Professeur  of  Natural 
Philosophy,  who  is  now  going  to  settle  at  Naples, 
And  is  a  distinguished  character  in  this  place 
both  on  account  of  his  genius  and  his  Fortune, 
having  married  a  Lady  of  about  forty  or  fifty 
thousand  pounds  Fortune.  Mons.  de  Voltaire 
lias  prevailed  on  de  Kain,*  the  Best  Actor  in 
Paris,  to  come  to  the  Theatre  here  for  a  week — 
he  stays  at  Voltaire's  Villa  and  is  to  appear 
in  three  of  his  best  Tragedies.  The  Old  Man 
Retains  all  his  Vivacity,  is  Present  at  the 
Rehearsals,  giving  directions  to  the  Actors,  and 
takes  infinite  pleasure  in  seeing  his  own  Pieces 
Acted.  The  House  will  be  immensely  Crowded ; 
there  are  Comp^  in  Town  who  have  come  all 
the  way  from  Lausanne  and  Even  Berne  to 
see  this  Actor. 

I  offer  my  Humble  Compliments  to  the  Duke 
of  Argyle  and  all  the  Family,  and 

I  remain  Your  Grace's  most  obedient 
and  Most  humble  servant, 

J.  Moore. 


Dear  Dutchess, 

As    we    are    to    visit    the    Planets    soon, 
possibly  my  next  letter  wdll  be  dated  from  the 

*  Henri  Louis  Lekain,  the  most  famous  tragedian  of  his  time. 
He  was  Voltaire's  friend  and  most  enthusiastic  admirer.  He 
inaugurated  drastic  reforms  in  staging  plays,  especially  in  the 
matter  of  costume.     He  died  in  1778. 


DUKE   OF   HAMILTON  345 

Moon.     You    must    therefore    excuse    blunders 
in  a  lunatick. 

(Addressed)     A  Madame, 

Madame  la  Duchesse  d'Argyle 
(Argyle  House) 
a  Londres. 

franko  Paris. 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother, 

Geneva,  September  20th,  1772. 

I  am  studying  the  Stars,  my  dearest  Duchess, 
but  it  will  be  long  before  I  am  such  a  conjurer 
as  your  Grace.  You  have  at  length  fallen  upon 
a  method  which  will  overcome  my  aversion  to 
writing,  and  that  is  letting  me  feel  the  pain  of 
not  hearing  from  you.  You  cannot  imagine 
how  much  I  was  disappointed  for  two  or  three 
Posts.  I  beg  that  neither  you  nor  Lady  Betty 
will  carry  your  revenge  any  farther.  You  do 
not  know  the  whole  of  my  punishment.  I  am 
not  only  mortified  by  not  receiving  letters  but 
I  also  suffer  by  the  severity  of  Mr.  Moore's 
Sarcasms.  In  general  he  hates  lecturing  as 
much  as  I  hate  to  be  lectured.  But  your  last 
letter  vexed  him  a  little,  and  he  drew  such  a 
strange,  ludicrous,  diverting,  yet  severe  Picture 
of  Laziness  and  Dawdcling  with  many  allusions 
to  my  Character  that  I  blushed,  and  smiled 
alternately,  and  did  not  know,  upon  the  whole, 
whether  to  laugh  or  cry.  And  not  satisfied 
with  writing  to  you  by  the  two  last  Posts  liimself, 
he  also  insists  upon  my  writing  by  the  present. 
I  have  not  yet  heard  from  the  Baron,*  or  Mr. 
Hume.     But  when  I  do  I  shall  certainly  write 

*  Baron  Mure. 
VOL.   II.  2 


346     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

in  answer,  and  that  autant  par  inclination  que 
par  obeissance.  My  time  is  passed  between 
amusement  and  study,  I  must  own  to  my  shame, 
the  latter  plus  par  obeissance  que  par  inclina- 
tion ;  however  it  is  certain  that  Mr.  Moore  has 
inspired  me  with  a  greater  relish  for  it  than  I 
ever  had.  And  though  he  labours  obstinately 
against  some  of  my  favourite  amusements,  yet  he 
has  inspired  me  with  no  disclination  towards  him, 
but  greatly  on  the  contrary.  Adieu,  Dearest 
Duchess, 

I  am  affectionately  yours, 

Hamilton  &  Brandon. 

{Addressed)     A  Madame, 

Madame  la  Duchess  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 
Londres. 

Franco  Paris. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  Sept'r  28,  1772. 

If  your  Grace  has  Received  all  the  letters  I 
have  wrote  of  late  you  must  Acknowledge  my 
Punctuallity  and  own  that  I  have  expiated  my 
former  Sins  of  Ommission.  I  took  occasion 
from  your  last  letters  to  expostulate  with  the 
Duke  upon  his  negligence  in  writing,  and  told 
him  I  saw  plainly  that  your  Grace  would  write 
very  seldom  if  he  did  not  become  more  Regular. 
The  consequence  was  his  writing  you  a  pretty 
long  letter,  and  I  believe  he  is  Resolved  to  give 
you  less  Reason  to  Complain  for  the  future. 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton's  character  would 
become  great  as  well  as  amiable  by  Substraction 
without  any  addition   to  his  natural   Talents. 


DR.    :M00RE  347 

If  we  can  remove  indolence  the  Business  is 
done.  He  knows  that  this  is  his  weak  side  and 
laments  it  himself,  but  by  long  indulgence  it 
has  got  such  a  hold  of  his  constitution  that  it  is 
apt  to  Return  in  spite  of  some  very  laudable 
efforts  which  he  has  made  within  these  two 
months.  When  left  to  himself  he  is  apt  to 
allow  the  hours  appropriated  for  Business  to 
slip  away  without  his  being  able  to  Recollect 
how  they  escap'd,  for  which  Reason  I  have  found 
it  absolutely  necessary,  whatever  Masters  he  has, 
to  attend  along  with  him,  to  Read  alternately 
with  him  on  every  subject  of  his  study,  and  to 
Repeat  and  Illustrate  it  again  and  again,  with- 
out which  I  plainly  perceive  that  the  Lectures 
would  be  mere  form  Unattended  with  improve- 
ment, for  he  has  a  great  Talent  in  deceiving  the 
Lecturer  and  apearing  to  listen  when  his  mind 
is  in  Reality  employed  about  a  very  different 
matter.  This  engrosses  more  of  my  time  than 
is  Usual  for  People  in  my  Situation,  and  as  I 
accompany  the  Duke  in  almost  all  his  excursions 
(tho  it  may  appear  extraordinary)  yet  it  is 
certainly  true  that  I  am  often  Pinched  for  time 
to  write  necessary  letters. 

To  make  ammends  for  this  Indolence  the 
Duke  is  possess'd  of  Vivacity,  Good  Humour,  a 
Sacred  Regard  for  his  word,  and  all  the  prin- 
ciples of  a  Gentleman  and  the  Spirit  of  a  Man  of 
Honour.  I  can  assure  your  Grace  his  Personal 
good  qualities  have  engaged  my  esteem  inde- 
pendent of  the  attachment  I  may  be  supposed 
to  have  to  his  Connections  and  Family.  And 
everybody  here  seem  pleased  with  the  agreable 
and  Confidential  Manner  in  which  we  live 
together. 

The   Duke   and    I    were    Invited   by   Mons'r 


348     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Pietet  to  a  Ball  at  his  House  some  miles  from 
Geneva  a  few  days  ago.  There  were  about 
twenty  Ladies,  some  of  them  exceedingly  hand- 
some. I  do  not  believe  the  Ladies  of  the  best 
fashion  at  Paris  are  Possess'd  of  more  Politeness 
or  Easier  Manners  than  some  of  the  Genevoise. 
I  had  no  notion  of  this  till  I  came  here,  but  as 
far  as  I  am  a  Judge,  it  is  true.  The  Duke 
danced  French  Countery  Dances  till  three  in 
the  Morning,  and  a  few  Minuets.  There  were 
some  who  perhaps  a  Dancing  Master  would 
have  thought  danced  the  Minuet  more  correctly, 
but  none  had  so  much  easy  Careless  graceful- 
ness as  the  Duke.  I  begin  to  think  his  Stoop 
has  a  good  effect.  The  Women  seem'd  to  be  of 
the  same  opinion.  He  attached  himself  to  a 
Madam  Cozenof,  a  Lady  with  the  Blackest  and 
finest  eyes  in  the  world.  The  Duke  says  the 
Devil's  own  Eyes  cannot  possibly  be  blacker. 
I  believe  he  is  a  little  Catched  by  this  Lady. 
Since  he  must  have  a  flame  (for  his  heart  is  like 
tinder)  he  cannot  be  better  fixed.  The  Woman 
fortunately  is  Marryed.  They  say  She  is  fond 
of  her  Husband.  However,  he  ought  not  to 
trust  too  much  to  that. 

This  is  the  third  Passion  the  Duke  has  had 
since  we  cross'd  the  Sea.  They  generally  affect 
his  appetite,  and  I  can  make  a  pretty  good  guess 
of  the  highth  of  his  Love  by  the  Victuals  he 
Refuses  to  eat.  A  Slight  touch  of  Love  puts 
him  immediately  from  Legumes  and  all  kind  of 
Jardinage.  If  it  arises  a  degree  higher  he  turns 
up  his  nose  at  Fricasses  and  Ragouts.  Another 
degree  and  he  will  Rather  go  to  bed  supperless  as 
taste  plain  Roasted  Veal  or  Poulets  of  any  sort. 
This  is  the  utmost  length  his  passion  has  ever 
come  hitherto,  for  when  he  was  at  the  worst 


DR.    MOORE  849 

with  Madamoisel  Marchenville,  tho'  she  put  him 
intirely  from  Greens,  Ragouts,  and  Veal,  yet 
she  made  no  impression  on  his  Roast  Beef  or 
Mutton  appetite.  He  fed  plentifully  upon  those 
in  spite  of  all  her  charms.  I  intend  to  make  a 
Thermometer  for  the  Duke's  Passion  with  four 
degrees:  (1)  Greens,  (2)  Fricassees  and  Ragouts, 
(3)  Roast  Veal  and  fowls,  (4)  plain  Roast  Mutton 
or  Beef.  And  if  ever  the  Mercury  mounts  so 
high  as  the  last  I  shall  think  the  Case  alarming 
and  inform  your  Grace. 

I  remain  with  the  greatest  Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and 

most  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  Octr.  12,  1772. 

I  wrote  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll  and  to  Baron 
Mure  last  week,  and  as  I  have  nothing  more 
Interesting  to  say  I  shall  Resume  a  subject  upon 
which  I  formerly  wrote  to  your  Grace  from 
Paris.  I  mean  Economy.  The  answer  your 
Grace  sent  and  a  letter  from  Colonel  Stewart 
which  accompanied  yours  were  construed  by 
the  Duke  into  an  approbation  of  his  Ideas 
Rather  than  of  Mine,  which  has  made  me  more 
Reserved  than  otherwise  I  would  have  been 
upon  the  Subject  of  Expence. 

The  Allowance  of  £1,000  or  £1,200  a  year 
while  the  Duke  Remains  at  Geneva  I  am  con- 
vinced is  sufficiently  ample,  and  even  more  than 
is  Necessary  for  the  Duke  to  spend,  yet  at  the 
Rate  we  go  on  I  am  affraid  the  highest  of  these 
Sums  will  not  be  sufficient.     When  I  wish  to 


350     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

turn  the  Duke  from  any  Piece  of  Expence  which 
I  think  improper  or  Unnecessary  I  am  obUged 
to  found  my  Arguments  upon  some  other  Basis 
than  Economy,  otherwise  they  would  have  Httle 
Effect,  as  it  is  not  Possible  for  any  human 
Creature  to  have  a  more  complete  disregard  to 
Money.  I  do  not  wish  to  trouble  your  Grace 
with  Particulars,  but  in  General  I  can  assure  you 
these  Numberless  Sources  of  Expences  which 
(he  either  discovers  or  are  suggested  to  him) 
and  which  united  amount  to  something  very 
considerable,  and  yet  are  so  far  from  being 
necessary  that  I  am  certain  your  Grace  would 
think  they  rather  Diminished  than  Added  to 
his  Importance. 

I  hope  your  Grace  will  not  suspect  that  for 
the  sake  of  saving  a  little  money  I  would  spare 
anything  that  was  becoming  the  Duke  of 
Hamilton.  On  the  Contrar}^  I  have  the  Utmost 
attention  (perhaps  more  than  he  has  himself) 
to  what  is  due  to  his  Rank.  But  I  cannot  bear 
we  should  be  the  dupes  of  Tradesmen  or  Servants 
who  have  an  Interest  in  leading  him  into  Im- 
proper Expence.  Yet  when  he  is  perswaded  to 
order  things,  however  Unnecessary  they  may 
be,  they  must  be  paid  ;  I  cannot  bear  to  Counter- 
mand what  he  orders  or  Even  to  Show,  to  any 
other  but  himself,  that  I  dissaprove  of  it ;  and 
as  he  has  changed  for  the  better  in  other  things 
I  do  not  like  to  give  him  any  trouble  on  a 
subject  which  he  thinks  perfectly  unimportant. 
If  your  Grace  thinks  it  proper  I  wish  you  would 
write  something  pretty  Strong,  which  will 
greatly  Strengthen  my  hands  and  make  what  I 
may  say  have  more  weight. 

One  great  source  of  Expence  is  horses  and 
chaises.     Some  how  or  other  he  finds  occasioi\ 


DR.    MOORE  351 

to  employ  two  or  three  Servants  with  different 
Messages  on  liorseback  every  day — every  time 
a  Serv't  mounts  a  horse  it  is  mark'd  down,  and 
the  fellow's  Bill  who  keeps  these  horses  and 
Chaises  is  very  considerable  every  month. 

Below  I  give  your  Grace  a  List  of  the  cloths 
the  Duke  has  made  up  since  we  left  London. 

At  Calais — a  Plush  Frock. 

Paris — a  laced  half  mourning  Suit,  a  Green 
Frock,  and  two  buff  coloured  sattin 
Waistcoats,  &c. 

Lyons — two  Rich  Waistcoats,  &c. 

Geneva — a  Red  Frock,  White  dress  Coat, 
Light  Blue  dress  Coat,  a  Green  Frock, 
a  ^Vhite  Ratine  Suit,  a  Hunting  Suit,  a 
Big  Coat,  a  Night  Gown,  Besides  Silk 
Wastecoats,  &c. 

and  Still  he  stands  in  need  of  Winter  Cloths. 
I  have  advised  him  to  make  up  a  plain  Crimson 
Velvet  Suit  when  the  Season  is  a  little  more 
advanced — contented  if  I  can  perswade  him  to 
limit  his  wardriger  to  this  for  the  winter.  The 
Duke,  like  many  people  of  his  age,  is  fond  of 
Dress.  I  have  endeavoured  to  convince  him 
that  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  needs  not  draw 
attention  of  Sick  importance  from  that  Quarter. 
I  have  endeavoured  to  convert  that  Vanity 
(w'h  he  is  not  destitute  of)  into  that  kind  of 
Pride  (which  might  insitc  him  to  aspire  to  nobler 
distinctions),  and  I  hope  not  without  success. 

It  is  not  merely  for  the  sake  of  the  money  that 
I  would  have  your  Grace  give  a  hint  on  this 
subject  to  the  Duke,  but  also  for  this  Reason, 
that,  I  am  convinced,  we  might  answer  all  your 
Grace's  Views  in  sendinor  the  Duke  here,  and  he 


352     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

might  be  on  the  most  Respectable  footing,  with 
the  sum  alloted  by  The  Tutors,  and  all  that  is 
over  is  sacrificed  to  Dissipation  and  Idleness.  I 
have  the  honour  to  be 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and 

most  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

I  once  intended  to  have  wrote  only  a  few  lines 
Informing  you  of  the  Duke's  perfect  good  health, 
but  when  I  was  on  the  subject  of  economy  I 
could  not  bear  to  give  your  Grace  so  small  a 
pennyworth. 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  October  19,  1772. 

By  the  last  Post  the  Duke  had  your  Grace's 
of  the  25  of  Sepf,  and  at  the  same  time  letters 
from  Lady  Betty  and  Capt"  Gunning.  I  Re- 
greted  they  came  not  by  different  Posts,  because 
after  so  much  Plenty  I  am  affraid  their  will  be 
a  Dearth,  and  I  knoAv  he  is  much  dissapointed 
when  he  hears  not  from  the  family  at  least  once 
in  two  or  three  posts. 

It  gives  me  uneasiness  to  trouble  your  Grace 
on  any  subject  which  possibly  you  may  think 
triffling,  and  soon  after  my  last  went  away  I 
repented  I  had  wrote  it ;  however,  as  I  have 
mentioned  that  subject,  I  may  also  Inform  you 
that  the  day  following  another  new  suit  of 
Cloths  and  some  other  very  Unnecessary  articles 
came  home,  upon  which  I  had  not  Patience  to 
wait  for  your  Grace's  letter,  but  I  spoke  to  the 
Duke  myself — and  I  believe  with  effect.  I  said 
little  on  Economy,  but  I  took  occasion  to  Paint 
the  character  of  a  youth  we  have  here  whose 


DR.    MOORE  353 

only  sollicitude  and  study  is  Dress.  Tho  the 
Duke  was  like  to  expire  with  laughing  at  the 
Picture,  it  was  not  a  Laugh  of  approbation,  and 
I  am  convinced  he  will  have  no  desire  to  Re- 
semble it.  I  would  wish  that  all  hints  Relative 
to  Economy  came  from  your  Grace  Rather  than 
from  me — not  that  he  neglects  my  advice — on 
the  contrary  I  can  carry  any  point  by  Insisting 
Possitively  upon  it,  and  he  endures  my  Lectures 
with  wonderful  Patience  and  good  temper.  But 
I  wish  to  be  very  sparing  least  their  force  should 
be  diminished  by  Repetition.  This  cannot 
happen  to  your  Grace  at  any  time — particularly 
at  Present,  when  every  admonition  acquires 
strength  from  the  distance  it  comes  from. 

Little  pains  need  be  taken  upon  the  Duke  with 
Regard  to  the  showy  and  ornamental  part  of 
Education — there  is  no  Question  but  he  will  be 
one  of  the  most  elegant  and  best  bred  men  in 
the  Kingdom.  But  I  know  your  Grace  will 
not  be  satisfied  except  he  acquires  Knowledge. 
Independent  of  the  weight  this  would  give  him 
in  the  State,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  for  his 
private  happyness.  I  am  therefor  striving  to 
Inspire  him  with  some  taste  for  study — and  the 
valuable  art  of  filling  up  his  time  with  satis- 
faction. To  make  him  Independent  of  others 
and  to  open  sources  of  happyness  within  his  own 
mind,  I  wish  to  convince  him  of  this  Truth, 
that  if  he  cannot  carry  enjoyment  about  with 
him  he  will  fmd  it  nowhere.  He  promises  as 
much  as  any  body  can  to  enjoy  long  life,  but 
without  the  power  of  ammusing  himself  and 
bearing  his  own  Comp^  without  wearyness, 
there  will  be  many  a  yawning  Interval  of  In- 
sipidity and  disgust,  to  avoid  which  he  might 
fly  to  Gaming  or  Drinking,  if  his  mind  is  not 


354     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

previously   posess'd  by  a  Love  of  Knowledge, 
the  Resources  of  which  are  Infinite. 

The  Duke  has  gone  this  morning  to  the 
Hunting  with  Mr.  Munson  and  Mr.  Watson, 
sons  of  Lords  Munson  and  Sands,  which  has 
prevented  him  from  writing  this  Post,  but  he 
has  promised  me  to  write  the  next. 

I   offer   my    Respectful    Compliments   to   the 
Duke  of  Argyll  and  the  two  Young  Ladys,  and 
I  have  the  honour  to  be  Avith  much  sincerity 
Your  Grace's  most  obed*  and 

faithful!  humble  Serv\ 

J.  Moore. 

The  two  3^oung  men  above  mentioned  literally 
do  nothing — the  first,  from  a  fit  of  obstinacy, 
will  not  so  much  as  speak  French.  Their  time 
is  spent  in  the  most  Insipid  and  absurd  manner 
Imaginable,  sauntering  and  gaming  when  they 
can  get  any  body  to  Play  with  them. 

It  is  not  Possible  to  keep  the  Duke  so  much 
as  I  could  wish  from  the  Comp^  of  the  English, 
which  has  Retarded  matters  a  good  deal — and 
unfortunately  there  are  none  of  his  countery 
men  here  as  students  whose  example  he  should 
imitate — he  does  better  than  any  of  them.  I 
need  not  mention  to  your  Grace  that  I  should 
be  uneasy  to  think  that  this  last  part  of  my 
letter  was  known  to  anybody  besides  the  Duke 
of  Argyll.  I  am  sorry  for  the  two  young  men, 
who  seem  naturally  of  a  good  character,  yet 
their  time  is  past  in  complete  Idleness. 

{Addressed)     A  Madame 

Madame  la  Duchesse  d'Argyll, 
Argyll  House, 

a  Londres. 

franco  Paris. 


DR.    MOORP:  355 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  Oct'  26,   1772. 

I  imagined  your  Grace  would  have  had  the 
pleasure  of  a  letter  from  the  Duke  this  post. 
I  believe  I  said  in  my  last  that  he  had  promised 
me  to  write,  but  I  am  convinced  I  have  been 
mistaken,  for  I  never  knew  him  break  his  word, 
and  if  he  had  actually  promised  I  am  Certain 
nothing  could  have  prevented  his  writing.  The 
greatest  foible  he  has  is  Indolence ;  he  is,  how- 
ever, getting  the  better  of  it  by  degrees. 

His  Grace  and  me  sup'd  last  night  with  Lord 
and  Lady  Morton,  who  have  been  at  Lausanne 
for  these  three  or  four  months  past  and  are 
now  on  their  way  to  Languedoc,  where  they 
Intend  to  pass  the  winter.  We  are  to  dine  with 
them  this  day  at  Lord  Stanhope's.  I  do  not 
know  whether  Mr.  Lock  has  the  honour  of  being 
known  to  your  Grace — this  Gentleman  with  his 
Family  came  lately  from  London,  and  are 
settled  for  the  winter  at  a  very  Elegant  House 
within  a  few  miles  of  Geneva  where  He  lives  in 
a  very  genteel  manner.  I  am  fond  of  accom- 
panying the  Duke  to  this  Family  because  Mr. 
Lock  is  one  of  the  most  agreable  and  most 
accomplished  Gentlemen  I  ever  knew,  and  his 
Lady  extremely  amiable.  The  conversation  of 
Such  People  is  equally  agreable  and  Instructive, 
and  may  be  of  more  service  to  the  Duke  than 
the  Lectures  of  any  Professor.  Mr.  Naville  has 
now  left  this  Place,  so  that  Lord  Stanhope's 
Family  in  the  Town,  and  Mr.  Lock's  and  Mr. 
Upton's  in  the  countery,  are  the  only  English 
Familys  in  which  the  Duke  visits. 

I  have  wrote  this  letter  in  consequence  of  my 


356     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Resolution  to  write  every  week,  if  the  Duke 
does  not.  I  am  sure  he  has  not  Bad  health  as 
an  Exeuse,  for  he  never  was  half  so  strong  in  his 
life.  Your  Grace  knows  how  to  punish  him  for 
his  Laziness. 

I  am  your  Grace's  most  obed*^  and 

obliged  humble  Serv*, 

J.  Moore. 


Mrs.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Madam, 

I  have  the  pleasure  to  acquaint  your 
Grace  that  I  had  a  letter  from  Mr.  Moore  last 
post  dated  the  30  Octo'.  The  Duke  of  Hamilton 
was  then  in  good  health.  Mr.  Moore  expresses 
the  most  perfect  satisfaction  with  his  Grace's 
conduct,  and  wishes  My  Daughter  may  pay  as 
great  a  regard  to  my  advice  as  the  Duke  of 
Hamilton  does  to  his  in  every  particular. 
Heaven  grant  he  may  be  able  to  preserve  that 
influence  by  which  alone  he  can  hope  to  be  of 
use  to  the  Duke. 

The  day  I  was  honoured  with  your  Grace's 
letter  I  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  my  Infant, 
and  tho'  penetrated  with  gratitude  for  the 
obliging  manner  in  which  your  Grace  expressed 
yourself,  My  health  and  spirits  were  both  so 
much  affected  that  I  was  unable  to  make  any 
return  at  that  time.  As  soon  as  I  was  a  little 
recovered  I  had  a  strong  inclination  to  make 
my  acknowledgement  in  person,  but  the  weather 
became  bad  and  I  found  the  season  too  far 
advanced  for  me  to  take  a  Journie  to  Inverary 
by  myself,  but  determined  to  go  to  Roseneath 
as  soon  as  I  heard  of  your  Grace's  arrival.  Mr. 
Baird  informs  me  you  intend  only  being  there 


MRS.    MOORP:  357 

for  a  Night  or  two,  which  deprives  me  of  all 
opportunity  of  waiting  upon  your  Grace  this 
season.  I  am  happy,  however,  to  hear  you 
have  thoughts  of  coming  by  Glasgow — and  if 
you  would  not  think  the  proposal  very  absurd, 
I  would  gladly  beg  of  your  Grace  to  do  me  the 
honour  to  accept  of  a  Bed  in  my  House.  The 
accommodation  I  have  to  offer  can  have  no 
other  recommendation  than  being  quieter  than 
the  Inn,  and  it  is  on  that  account  only  I  presume 
to  offer  it.  Besides  a  Room  for  your  Grace 
their  is  a  small  Bed  Chamber  upon  the  same 
flat  where  any  one  person  could  sleep,  which  is 
all  I  can  pretend  to.  If  your  Grace  does  me 
the  honour  to  come  I  shall  make  everv  thincr 
as  easie  and  convenient  as  possible.  I  beg  my 
Respectfull  Compliments  to  the  Duke  of  Argyle, 
and  am,  Madam,  with  unexpressible  regard. 
Your  Grace's  Most  obedi''  Humble  Servant, 

Jane  Moore. 

Glasgow,  nth  Nov',    1772. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  18th  Jany,   1773. 

Your  Grace's  letter  of  the  fifth  of  Jan'y  came 
at  the  very  moment  I  w^as  speaking  with  great 
earnestness  to  the  Duke  upon  some  irregularities 
in  his  Conduct.  I  was  much  affected  myself, 
and  this  enabled  me  to  affect  him.  Your  letter, 
coming  at  this  critical  instant,  seems  to  have 
had  the  full  effect  which  it  was  exquisitely  con- 
trived to  produce.  He  has  made  such  promises 
to  me,  and  seems  so  much  in  earnest,  that  I 
can  have  no  doubt  of  his  behaving  in  every 
Respect   as   your   Grace   wishes.     It   is   youth, 


358     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

inexperience,  and  a  careless  temper,  not  bad 
dispositions,  or  want  of  sense,  that  have  ever 
made  him  act  improperly.  I  will  not  trouble 
your  Grace  with  any  more  particular  account 
of  a  few  excesses  which  are  already  expiated  by 
Repentance,  and  I  hope  will  not  be  repeated. 
Whoever  writes  you  so  minutely  those  unfavour- 
able things  of  the  Duke,  will  I  hope  be  equally 
punctual  in  giving  your  Grace  more  agreeable 
intelligence  when  it  can  be  done  with  equal 
Justice.  But  your  Grace  will  Remember  that 
there  are  Spirits  in  the  world  who  are  fonder  of 
Satire  than  Panegorick. 

With  regard  to  the  essential  article  of  the 
choice  of  company,  I  am  persuaded  there  will 
be  no  foundation  for  complaints  on  that  subject 
for  the  future.  It  must  be  acknowledged  that, 
if  we  fall  into  any  error  there,  it  is  intirely  our 
own  faults,  for  the  best  Families  in  Geneva 
have  show'd  the  utmost  attention  to  the  Duke, 
and  have  vied  with  each  other  in  their  endea- 
vours to  make  the  place  agreable  to  him.  This 
is  an  Advantage  which  no  other  Stranger  has 
in  such  a  degree  as  the  Duke,  and  many  of  them 
have  it  not  at  all,  for  the  Genovois  are  shy  in 
Receiving  Strangers,  and  particularly  the  Eng- 
lish youth,  into  their  Societies.  The  excesses 
which  our  young  men  are  sometimes  given  to 
are  look'd  upon  with  a  great  degree  of  dislike 
in  this  Place,  where  the  Manners  are  exceed- 
ingly correct.  French  Manners  make  dayly 
advances,  but  hitherto  have  only  increased  ease 
and  Politeness,  without  diffusing  either  effemi- 
nate Refinements  or  Libertinism. 

I  am  concious  that  your  Grace  must  have 
observed  a  variety  and  almost  a  Contradiction 
in  my  letters,  owing  to  the  influence  which  the 


DR.    MOORE  359 

Duke's  Conduct  has  on  me  at  different  times. 
I  am  in  high  spirits  and  view  everytliing  in  a 
pleasant  point  of  light  when  he  is  in  a  good 
train.  My  heart  swells  with  Satisfaction  and 
Pride  when  I  hear  him  Prais'd.  On  the  con- 
trary I  become  Sad  and  unhappy  when  I  think 
his  Conduct  is  Blamed  or  Blameworthy.  I 
never  heard  him  say  a  foolish  thing  in  Company 
without  looking  like  a  Fool,  and  almost  wishing 
it  had  Rather  come  from  myself.  To  this 
sensibility  your  Grace  will  impute  the  discord- 
ance in  my  letters,  and  from  this  you  may  judge 
of  the  Pleasure  I  at  this  moment  enjoy  from 
the  fair  Prospect  which  now  opens  of  which  the 
Inclosed  will  Inform  you.  I  hope  no  diffidence 
will  lurk  in  vour  mind.  After  the  earnest 
Resolutions  he  has  taken  and  the  solemn  pro- 
testations he  has  made,  you  cannot  doubt  of 
the  Duke's  adhering  to  them  without  thinking 
him  totally  lost  to  every  Sentiment  of  Truth, 
Honour,  and  Virtue.  Neither  need  what  has 
past  make  too  strong  an  impression  on  your 
mind.  There  are  twenty  who  could  have  been 
seduced  into  all  the  errors  the  Duke  has  fallen 
into,  for  one  who  could  have  had  the  magnani- 
mity to  confess  his  errors  in  the  manner  he  has 
done.  Your  Grace  is  not  the  only  person  to 
wliom  he  has  displayed  this  instance  of  true 
manliness.  One  of  his  late  adventures  made 
this  proper,  and  I  had  no  difficulty  in  prevailing 
on  him,  when  the  Duke  was  convinced  that 
the  person  exacted  nothing,  and  was  not  in  a 
situation  to  receive  any  other  kind  of  Repara- 
tion. I  was  the  more  pleased  with  this  as  I 
am  fully  convinced  of  the  delicacy  of  his  senti- 
ments as  a  Gentleman  and  the  Intrepidity  of 
his  spirit. 


360     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

I  offer  Respectful  Compliments  to  the  Duke 
of  Argyll  and  all  the  Family,  and  Remain 

Your  Grace's  ever  faithful  and  obed't 
humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

I  did  not  write  last  post  because  the  D.  con- 
duct could  not  be  approv'd,  and  I  did  not  choose 
to  trust  myself  on  the  subject.  I  was  to  low 
spirited. 

Portion  of  Letter  dated  Geneva,  April  ^\st. 

.  .  .  But  this  ensuing  year  and  the  way  he  shall 
spend  it  I  consider  as  of  great  importance — and 
perhaps  will  decide  whether  he  shall  be  a  char- 
acter of  Real  Importance  and  worth  capable  of 
the  first  employments — happy  in  himself  and 
approved  by  the  just  and  sensible — or  only  a 
Genteel  showy  man  of  Quality  with  a  good  deal 
of  natural  Quickness  and  very  knowing  in  horses. 
If  the  last  should  be  the  case  he  will,  independant 
of  other  circumstances,  be  miserable  from  his 
own  reflections,  for  in  his  heart  he  despises  this 
very  character  and  has  Ideas  of  a  different  kind 
— and  I  can  plainly  see  is  hurt  when  he  observes 
other  young  men  admired  for  a  different  Turn 
of  mind,  and  even  for  despising  those  objects 
which  he  puts  to  much  value  upon,  tho'  every 
object  of  that  kind  is  without  controulin  their 
Power,  and  Refused  and  neglected  by  them 
only  from  the  Idea  of  their  impropriety  and 
frivolity.  This  spark  of  Remorse  I  will  work  a 
little  upon,  and  possibly  matters  may  be  altered 
before  I  can  hear  from  your  Grace — but  still 
there  can  be  no  harm  in  your  or  the  Baron 
writing  in  the  Terms  above  mentioned. 


DR.    MOORE  361 

The  different  turns  of  my  letters  may  seem 
inconsistant  till  it  is  Remembered  tJiat  the  sub- 
jeet  is  a  youth  of  seventeen,  and  that  I  make  it 
a  Rule  to  paint  things  to  your  Grace  as  they 
Realy  are  at  the  date  of  my  letters,  and  this 
easily  Accounts  for  the  varied  and  even  contra- 
dictory accounts.  But  this  always  Remains 
without  being  contradicted,  that  the  materials 
we  have  to  work  upon  are  excellent  and  capable 
of  the  finest  pollish,  and  well  worthy  of  all  our 
care  to  prevent  their  being  defaced  or  broke  to 
pieces  before  they  are  finished.  I  have  the 
honour  to  be  with  Infinite  Respect  your  Grace's 

Ever  obedient  and  faithfull  humble  Serv* 

J.  Moore. 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  May  2,  1773. 

The  Duke  received  by  the  last  Post  your 
Grace's  letter  of  the  16  of  Aprile.  It  makes 
me  inexpressibly  happy  to  find  your  Senti- 
ments so  conformable  to  mine.  I  am  convinced 
the  Duke  will  not  give  you  the  mortification  of 
finding  your  expectations  of  him  dissapointed, 
or  of  upbraiding  me  with  having  deceived  you 
with  groundless  hopes.  I  will  not  say  that  the 
Duke  has  that  ardent  desire  for  knowledge,  or 
that  strong  Ambition,  which  enables  to  despise 
present  pleasure  on  every  occasion  for  the  sake 
of  future  Greatness.  But  I  can  truly  say  that 
his  desire  of  knowledge  and  his  application  are 
considerably  increased,  and  if  his  present  turn 
of  mind  and  attainments  are  compared  with 
what  they  were  when  he  left  England,  the 
change  will  be  found  much  in  his  favour  beyond 
what  was  to  have  been    Reasonably  expected 

VOL.   II.  3 


362     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

in  the  time.  I  am  not  naturally  an  Enemy  to 
Pleasure  and  Gayity,  and  I  wish  to  appear  as 
seldom  as  I  think  consistent  with  my  Duty  in 
my  Monitorial  character.  When  I  dread  his 
relapsing  into  the  habits  of  Indolence,  when  I 
dissaprove  of  his  Company,  or  w^hen  I  perceive 
a  destructive  Taste  beginnig  to  form  which 
might  intirely  ingross  him,  and  swallow  up 
every  other  Passion,  it  is  only  on  such  occasions 
that  I  interrupt  the  Cordial  Alliance  which 
generally  subsists  between  us.  This  generally 
occasions  a  contest  which  is  fought  with  suffi- 
cient Obstinacy  on  both  sides.  But  the  animo- 
sity is  intirely  exhausted  in  the  Battle  without 
leaving  any  Rancorous  dregs  behind.  One 
Reflection  gives  me  the  utmost  comfort,  that  I 
have  People  of  such  characters  as  those  of  your 
Grace  and  the  Duke  of  Argyll  to  appeal  to  on 
certain  occasions.  I  am  the  more  sensible  of 
my  own  happiness  in  this  particular  that  I  know 
the  inconveniences  which  others  Avho  are  here 
in  the  same  situation  wdth  myself  have  ex- 
perienced from  the  absurd  and  ill-judged  Indul- 
gence of  their  Pupil's  Relations,  as  well  as  from 
the  headstrong  folly  of  the  young  man  himself. 
The  first  seldom  fails  to  produce  or  at  least  to 
increase  the  second.  I  must  own  that  your 
Grace  has  acted  in  such  a  Manner  as  to  leave  us 
no  Excuse.  If  we  do  not  Improve  it  must  be 
his  fault  or  mine. 

The  Duke  presents  his  dutiful  Compliments 
to  your  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  and  Lady 
Charlotte  Edwin,  and  his  Love  to  the  two  young 
Ladys.     I  have  the  Honour  to  be 

Your  Grace's  ever  faithful  and  obed't 

humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


DR.    MOORE  363 

I  have  read  Mr.  Stewart's  letters  with  great 
satisfaction.  He  has  done  himself  Justice, 
and  attack'd  his  Enemy  with  the  Dignity  and 
Address  of  a  Gentleman.  When  compared  to 
him  Junius  is  but  an  executioner. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll, 

Chatelaine,  June  4,   1773. 

I  was  prevented  from  writing  to  your  Grace 
by  the  last  post,  being  much  hurryed  preparing 
everything  for  our  Establishment  in  this  place, 
where  we  are  now  most  agreeably  settled.  I 
mentioned  in  a  former  letter  that  the  Duke 
was  desirous  of  passing  this  Summer  in  the 
Countery.  I  hired  this  House,  which  is  about 
the  distance  of  a  League  from  Geneva,  one  of 
the  most  delightful  Situations  that  can  be 
imagined,  on  the  side  of  the  Rhone,  with  a 
beautiful  Garden  and  Surrounded  with  vine 
yards.  The  Duke  has  made  Strong  professions 
of  application  during  the  Summer,  and  there  is 
the  greater  probability  that  these  will  be  kept 
as  he  begins  to  take  some  pleasure  in  Reading 
and  is  able  to  make  Stronger  exertions  than  he 
was.  The  Prince  Galitzine  lives  in  the  same 
family  with  us,  which  I  think  an  advantage 
because  he  is  a  young  man  of  very  agreable 
manners  and  virtuous  dispositions,  who  gives 
the  utmost  application  to  his  Studies,  partly 
from  Taste  and  partly  from  a  Strong  Ambition 
to  acquire  distinction  and  to  deserve  it.  He 
is  three  or  four  years  older  than  the  Duke,  is 
very  accomplished  for  his  age,  having  been 
several  years  out  of  Russia,  two  of  these  in 
Italy,  is  much  esteem'd  in  this  Place,  and  as  he 


364     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

is  of  a  Prudent  Character  and  of  an  equal 
obliging  Temper,  I  was  exceeding  well  pleased 
when  the  Duke  proposed  that  they  should  live 
together  during  the  Summer.  The  Musiek 
Master  comes  every  morning  to  this  place. 
There  is  no  danger  of  this  part  of  Education 
being  neglected,  as  a  natural  Taste  has  more 
influence  than  any  other  Monitor.  I  hope  to 
engage  two  other  Masters  during  the  Summer  to 
give  Lesons  three  times  a  week,  one  in  Ethics, 
and  the  other  to  ammuse  the  Duke  with  ex- 
periments in  Natural  Philosophy ;  but  whether 
these  take  place  or  not  I  shall  contrive  to  have 
the  mornings  and  forenoons  usefully  employ'd. 
As  the  Duke's  acquaintences  Are  very  Numer- 
ous he  is  Generally  employed  in  visiting  or  some 
other  ammusement  in  the  afternoon.  Yester- 
day we  dined  with  a  Mons'r  de  Florian,  a 
Gentleman  much  connected  with  the  Comte  de 
Polignaque,  who  has  the  Honour  to  be  known 
to  your  Grace,  and  who  has  several  times  wrote 
to  Florian  from  Paris  in  the  strongest  terms  to 
pay  every  kind  of  attention  and  endeavour  to 
be  of  use  to  the  Duke.  Florian's  house  is 
adjacent  to  Voltaire's.  The  old  Gentleman 
sent  a  message  to  me  to  come  and  see  him  after 
dinner.  He  is  busily  employed  at  present  in 
preparing  what  he  calls  a  Tableau  of  the  Late 
War.  The  part  which  I  perceive  excites  his 
own  curiosity  most  is  what  was  transacted  in 
the  East  Indies,  with  the  Present  State  and  the 
Characters  and  Religion  of  the  Natives  of  that 
countery.  He  spoke  again  with  much  appro- 
bation of  Mr.  Stuart's  letters,  which  I  imagine 
have  made  some  noise  in  France,  for  the  Duke 
of  Rochfoucault,  who  is  at  present  at  Geneva, 
sent  a  message  to    Duke  Hamilton  desiring  a 


DR.    MOORE  365 

reading  of  them.  You  will  direct  your  letters 
as  formerly.  I  have  ordered  that  all  letters 
directed  to  the  Duke  or  me  shall  remain  at  the 
Post  house  till  we  send  for  them. 

The  Duke  received  Lady  Betty's  letter  and 
will  write  to  her  soon.  He  sends  his  Dutiful 
Compliments  to  your  Grace  and  desires  to  be 
Remembered  to  all  the  family. 

I  am  in  the  most  Respectful  Manner  Your 
Grace's  ever  obedient  and  most  faithful  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll, 

Chatelaine,  June  14,  1773. 

Last  week  the  Duke  wrote  to  your  Grace 
immediately  on  Receiving  the  Acc'ts  of  your 
Sister's  Death.  lie  seemed  much  affected  with 
that  Event  and  with  the  Influence  it  might 
have  on  Your  Spirits  and  Health.  He  is  much 
pleased  with  this  place,  and  if  I  may  Judge  by 
the  Sample  I  have  had  since  we  came  to  the 
Country,  I  have  every  Reason  to  believe  that 
this  Summer  will  be  pass'd  in  an  Agreeable  and 
useful  Manner.  For  I  never  saw  the  Duke  so 
happy  and  so  satisfied  with  himself,  and  I 
believe  he  never  had  so  much  Reason  to  be  so. 
This  morning  he  Rose  at  live  and  We  walked 
to  the  Rhone  and  Bathed.  The  Musick  Master 
came  at  six ;  from  a  little  after  seven  till  nine 
we  are  employed  in  Reading  togather.  From 
ten  till  one  is  employed  in  different  Exersices 
and  studies  highly  proper  for  him.  The  after- 
noon is  always  occupied  in  a  manner  which 
sufFiciently  ammuses  him,  and  leaves  no  Interval 
for  the  fits  of  Langour  he  was  formerly  subject 


366     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

to.  In  this  manner  has  every  day  been  pass'd 
since  we  came  to  Chatelaine,  and  I  never  saw 
him  so  active,  Uvely,  and  satisfyed  since  we 
were  togather.  Your  Grace  cannot  Imagine 
how  much  pleasure  this  has  given  me.  I  own 
I  never  was  happyer  in  my  liie,  for  My  happy- 
ness  is  in  a  great  measure  included  in  his.  This 
is  a  Theme  which  I  love  to  dwell  on,  and  I  might 
have  Prolonged  this  letter  considerably  if  the 
Post  did  not  oblige  me  to  finish. 

I  remain  your  Grace's  ever  faithful 
and  obed't  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Chatelaink,  28  June,  1773. 

I  have  nothing  but  what  is  good  to  write  to 
your  Grace  concerning  the  Duke.  I  had  some 
hopes  he  would  himself  have  wrote  this  Post, 
but  he  had  a  good  many  company  dining  with 
him  this  day,  and  since  dinner  he  has  fatigued 
himself  so  much  playing  at  cricket,  that  it 
would  be  cruel  to  desire  him  to  take  the  pen. 
The  Duke  is  so  much  in  debt  with  regard  to 
dinners  that  he  is  obliged  to  slump  off  a  good 
many  Creditors  at  a  time,  tho'  the  Plague  and 
ceremony  this  occasions  is  far  from  being  agree- 
able either  to  him  or  me.  He  has  since  we 
came  to  the  Countery  taken  a  great  fondness 
for  cricket,  and  as  there  is  a  convenient  field 
near  this  House  he  has  collected  a  Party  in 
Geneva  and  the  environs  who  come  here  occa- 
sionally and  Play.  I  am  sometimes  affraid 
that  he  pushes  this  exercise  to  excess,  but  he 
is  so  strong  and  agile  that  the  other  Players 


DR.    MOORE  367 

are  generally  sooner  fatigued  than  him  ;  besides 
he  passes  his  mornings  and  forenoons  so  very 
much  to  my  mind,  that  it  would  be  ungenerous 
to  make  any  objection  to  his  passing  the  Even- 
ings according  to  his  own.  In  short  he  is  in 
perfect  health  and  good  spirits,  which  I  believe 
is  greatly  owing  to  his  having  some  object  to 
employ  every  hour  of  his  time  from  Morning 
to  night.  As  this  is  the  case  your  Grace  cannot 
doubt  but  the  Duke's  natural  good  sense  and 
dispositions  will  be  gradually  adorned  with 
knowledge  and  virtuous  habits,  to  contribute  to 
which  desirable  ends,  as  it  is  the  Duty,  so  I  may 
with  Truth  say  it  is  the  wish  and  study  of 
Your  Grace's  ever  obedient  and 
faithful  humble  Serv*, 

J.  Moore. 

(Addressed)     A  Madam 

Madam  la  Duchesse  d'Argyll, 
Argyll  House, 

Londres. 

franko  Paris. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Chatelaine,  Jvly  14,  1773. 

The  Duke  Received  letters  two  or  three  Posts 
ago  from  Messrs.  Mure,  Stuart,  and  Crawford 
relative  to  the  Renfrewshire  Election,  and  im- 
mediately answered  them  in  Terms  expressive 
of  his  wishes  for  Mr.  Crawford's  success,  as  he 
understood  this  Gentleman  was  favoured  by 
your  Grace  and  the  other  Tutors. 

Mr.  George  Greenville  came  to  this  country 
about  ten  days  since,  and  as  he  found  it  diffi- 
cult to  get  himself  established  in  an  agreeable 


308     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

manner,  all  the  houses  about  the  Town  being 
occupied,  the  Duke  invited  him  to  this  house, 
where  there  was  a  spare  apartment,  and  he  now 
makes  one  of  the  family.  I  am  persuaded  your 
Grace  will  not  be  displeased  with  this  arrange- 
ment, as  Mr.  Greenville  is  a  very  sensible  young 
man  of  Correct  manners  and  a  very  manly  turn 
of  mind.  Both  the  Duke  and  me  were  interested 
in  this  young  Gentleman  on  account  of  an 
Intimate  companion  he  once  had  at  Eaton,  and 
the  more  I  see  of  Mr.  Greenville  I  have  the  more 
Reason  to  be  satisfied  with  his  being  often  with 
the  Duke. 

Mr.  Baron  Mure  gave  me  a  hint  that  your 
Grace  disapproved  of  my  having  attended  Mrs. 
Lock  and  Mrs.  Upton.  I  will  not  trouble  you 
with  the  particulars  of  th3  manner  in  which  I 
was  induced  to  this,  as  I  have  done  this  already 
in  my  letter  to  the  Baron.  This  I  am  fully 
convinced  of,  that  if  your  Grace  had  been  witness 
to  what  passed  you  would  have  joined  in  the 
Ladies'  Request,  and  would  have  had  a  much 
worse  opinion  of  me  than  I  hope  you  ever  will 
have,  had  I  refused  to  comply  with  it.  Your 
Grace  may  soon  be  informed  that  it  is  not 
possible  for  any  Person  who  ever  was  in  this 
place  in  my  situation  to  be  on  a  more  agreeable 
and  Respectable  footing  with  the  best  People 
of  every  Nation  than  I  am.  I  cannot  be  insen- 
sible that  this  proceeds  in  a  great  measure  from 
the  connection  I  have  with  one  of  the  Duke's 
Rank ;  at  the  same  time  I  have  reason  to  flatter 
myself  that  my  own  character  has  had  some 
share.  Every  one  is  sensible  of  the  advantage 
which  the  Duke  has  reap'd  from  his  being 
attended  by  one  who  has  some  knowledge  in 
medecine,  and  they  seem  still  more  convinced 


DR.    MOORE  369 

that  in  the  same  person  he  is  accompanied 
])y  a  (icntlcman  ;  alter  liaving  svij^portcd  this 
character  all  my  life  there  is  little  danger  of 
my  forfeiting  it  while  I  attend  the  Duke  of 
Hamilton. 

For  Reasons  which  I  formerly  wrote  to  the 
Duke  of  Argyll,  I  would  have  been  very  happy 
that  the  Duke  had  been  contented  with  the 
Riding  horses  he  already  had  and  with  a  hired 
carriage  at  his  command  when  he  needed  one. 
And  after  what  he  wrote  your  Grace  he  would 
not  have  insisted  on  Buying  a  pair  of  horses 
for  a  Cabriolle  if  I  had  remained  positive  against 
it,  but  I  saw  this  so  very  much  the  desire  of  his 
lieart  that  I  thought  it  best  to  propose  pur- 
chasing a  pair  which  he  has  now  had  for  about 
a  month.  I  plainly  perceive  that  he  will  be 
much  less  in  a  Cabriolle  now  than  ever,  for  he 
is  so  fond  of  his  horses  and  so  very  much  afraid 
of  injuring  tliem  that  he  grudges  the  smallest 
use  that  is  made  of  them,  and  very  often  chooses 
to  Ride  or  walk  afoot  to  save  them  the  fatigue 
of  driving  two  or  three  miles,  tho'  they  are  two 
of  the  strongest  horses  I  ever  saw.  So  there  is 
more  danger  of  their  falling  bad  of  Indolence 
and  surfeiting  than  of  over  fatigue.  Perhaps  I 
am  too  anxious  about  Trifles,  but  I  own  it  makes 
me  Uneasy  when  I  perceive  the  Duke  too 
curious  and  too  knowing  on  the  subject  of 
horses — his  frequent  visits  to  the  stable  never 
fail  to  give  me  a  little  imeasiness,  because  I 
fear  the  formation  of  an  Unconquerable  Taste 
for  every  kind  of  Horses.  I  have  the  pleasure 
however,  to  assure  your  Grace  that  the  Duke's 
mornings  and  forenoons  are  always  well  em- 
ployed. I  beg  you  will  make  my  compliments 
acceptable  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll  and  all  the 


370     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

family,  and  believe  me  to  be  with  the  utmost 
Respect 

Your  Grace's  ever  obedient  and 
faithful  humble  servant, 

J.  Moore. 

(Addressed)     A  Madame, 

Madame  la  Duchess  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 

a  Londres. 

franko  Paris. 


Dr.  Moore  to  Baron  Mure.* 

Chatelaine,  near  Geneva,  July  29,  1773. 

Dear  Baron, 

I  congratulate  you  most  heartily  on  the 
success  of  your  Negociation  at  London ;  few 
people  have  of  late  carried  so  much  intrinsick 
wealth  of  their  own  Creation  into  Scotland. 
Six  thousand  p'ds  and  two  Boys  worth  a 
Million  !  I  know  no  man  (out  of  Asia)  better 
at  making  money  and  children  than  you. 
You  will  say  perhaps  that  two-thirds  of  the 
money  is  for  other  men.  That  is  true,  and 
possibly  two-thirds  of  the  children  you  have 
made  in  your  time  are  for  other  men  also. 
But  whether  you  or  others  have  the  property, 
your  Labours  in  both  instances  are  certain 
gain  to  the  Countery. 

The  Duke  received  the  conjunct  letters  from 
Mr.  Stuart  and  you,  and  a  letter  from  Mr.  Craw- 
furd  on  the  same  subject.  I  explained  to  him 
the  affair  of  the  compromise,  and  he  immedi- 
ately wrote  satisfactory  answers  to  both. 

*  William  Mure,  baron  of  the  Scots  exchequer,  friend  of  Hume 
and  Lord  Bute. 


DR.    MOORE  371 

What  the  Dutchess  mentioned  to  you  con- 
cerning the  two  Ladys  is  true,  and  the  manner 
I  was  drawn  into  it  was  this.  When  I  left 
London  Dr.  Hunter  gave  me  a  letter  to  Mr. 
Upton,  an  English  gentleman  who  at  present 
lives  near  Geneva,  in  which  among  many  obliging 
things  he  mentioned  my  experience  and  address 
in  that  particular  business.  He  gave  me  the 
letter  sealed,  and  you  may  believe  I  could  have 
no  Idea  of  that  part  of  the  Contents.  Some 
time  after  Mr.  Lock,  a  man  of  Great  Fortune, 
and  one  of  the  most  amiable  and  accomplished 
Gentlemen  I  ever  knew,  came  here  with  his 
Family  and  took  a  house  in  the  Countery  near 
Mr.  Upton's.  Both  of  these  Gentlemen  show'd 
every  attention  to  the  Duke ;  he  was  fond  of 
their  Company  and  upon  the  most  intimate 
footing  in  their  Family s.  Their  Ladys  were 
both  with  Child  and  nearly  about  the  same 
time  gone.  When  the  period  approached  Mr. 
LTpton  Informed  me  of  what  Dr.  Hunter  had 
wrote,  and  both  he  and  Mr.  Lock  desired  in  the 
most  earnest  manner  that  I  would  attend  on 
that  occasion.  They  took  pains  to  obviate 
every  objection,  telling  me  that  their  Ladys  had 
perfect  confidence  in  me  and  a  dread  of  any 
other,  and  that  they  were  so  strongly  of  these 
sentiments  that  it  would  be  a  most  severe  and 
perhaps  a  fatal  disapointment  if  I  Refused. 
In  short  I  could  not  Refuse,  and  as  the  Ladys 
had  very  expeditious  Recoverys  and  fine  children, 
I  believe  they  have  the  highest  sense  of  the 
service  I  did  them. 

My  Reputation  as  a  Physician  is  higher 
here  than  I  could  wisli,  and  I  am  frequently 
consulted  by  the  English  who  pass  this  way. 
It  has  hitherto  appeared  to  me  unfeeling  and 


372     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

dissobliging  to  Refuse.  All  I  could  do  to 
prevent  this,  and  which  I  have  most  sacredly 
observed,  was  absolutely  to  Refuse  every  offer 
of  money  and  to  let  it  be  known  that  every 
piece  of  trouble  which  I  take  of  this  kind  is 
merely  out  of  favour  to  my  country  men. 
This  makes  it  indelicate  on  their  part  to 
consult  me,  which  accordingly  is  never  done 
but  on  very  particular  occasions.  As  for  Mrs. 
Lock  and  Upton,  nothing  would  have  made  me 
yield  to  their  Request  but  the  many  civilities 
they  had  show'd  both  to  the  Duke  and  me,  the 
Regard  which  every  one  must  have  who  knows 
them,  and  their  Strong  prejudices  in  my  favour, 
Circumstances  which  cannot  take  place  in  any 
future  Instance,  and  which  after  what  you  have 
said  (in  all  events)  I  will  positively  Refuse. 

I  hope,  my  dear  Baron,  you  will  Represent  this 
affair  in  its  true  light  to  the  Dutchess  without 
delay.  If  I  know  anything  of  her  Dispositions, 
had  she  been  here  she  would  have  Joined  in 
the  Ladys'  Request.  As  for  the  effect  which 
this  or  any  other  part  of  my  conduct  has  had 
here,  I  can  assure  you  that  I  stand  as  high  in 
the  opinion  of  the  best  People  here  as  my  heart 
could  desire,  more  so  (than  I  think  in  my  Con- 
science) I  deserve.  The  unwearied  attention  I 
have  paid  to  the  Duke's  improvement  and  the 
favourable  change  which  has  followed,  has  been 
much  remark'd,  and  has  perhaps  made  the 
greater  impressions  that  in  this  place  they  have 
seen  many  instances  of  an  opposite  conduct, 
particularly  from  our  Countery.  This  is  so  true 
that,  if  I  had  the  care  of  one  of  inferiour  Rank 
and  Talents  to  the  Duke  of  Hamilton,  I  flatter 
myself  I  would  bestow  instead  of  Receiving 
importance  by  the  connection.     Offer  my  Re- 


DR.    MOORE  373 

spectful  Compliments  to  Mrs.  Mure  and  all  your 
family.  Tell  Mr.  Jardcn  I  Received  his  letter 
and  assure  him  of  my  esteem.  I  once  had  hopes 
of  bein^  able  to  procure  him  a  Pupil  that  Possibly 
he  would  not  have  Refused.  An  accident,  to 
the  young  man's  great  loss,  prevented  this.  I 
suppose  you  have  Received  a  letter  the  Duke 
wrote  you  some  days  ago  in  Answer  to  Yours. 
He  is  perfectly  well,  and  I  am  and  shall  Remain 
to  my  last  breath,  my  Dear  Baron, 

Your  affectionate  and  obed't  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

I  wish  it  may  be  convenient  for  Mrs.  Mure  to 
allow  Mrs.  Moore  to  accompany  her  some  time 
this  Summer  to  Inverary.  The  many  cross 
incidents  which  have  happened  of  late  have 
made  me  often  uneasy  on  her  acc't,  and  make 
me  fear  the  effect  they  may  have  on  her  health. 
I  am  sure  nothing  can  give  her  so  much  pleasure 
as  Mrs.  Mure's  attention  and  yours,  and  she  has 
often  express'd  in  her  letters  her  obligations  to 
vou  both  since  I  left  her. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

CuATKLATNE,  2  August,   1773. 

I  wrote  a  short  line  to  your  Grace  last  week 
only  to  inform  you  of  the  continuation  of  the 
Duke's  health.  I  expected  he  would  have  wrote 
this  post  himself,  but  his  aversion  to  writing  is 
very  great.  He  says  he  hates  writing  because 
he  writes  badly,  and  I  tell  him  he  writes  ill 
because  he  hates  writing.  He  surmounts  this 
aversion,  however,  when  there  is  any  particular 
call.  When  I  pointed  to  him  the  distressful 
scene  which  your  G^'aee  was  witness  to  before 


374     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

you  left  London,  there  was  occasion  for  no  other 
argument  to  induce  him  to  write. 

The  Prince  and  Princess  de  Carrignan  *  and 
Madame  de  Brionne  have  been  at  Geneva,  and 
were  intertained  by  the  RepubHc  with  uncom- 
mon Magnificence.  There  was  an  Entertain- 
ment on  the  Lake  with  the  representation  of  a 
sea  fight ;  the  vessel  in  which  they  were  was 
attacked  by  another  carrying  Turkish  colours 
and  the  men  in  Turkish  dresses.  After  some 
firing  and  when  the  Prince's  vessel  was  in  danger 
of  being  taken  a  Maltese  sloop  came  up  to  her 
relief,  and  after  much  firing  and  brandishing 
of  swords  the  Turkish  ship  was  forced  to  yield 
and  all  the  infidels  made  prisoners,  to  the  great 
comfort  and  satisfaction  of  all  the  Christian 
Spectators,  while  after  this  victory  there  was  a 
Ball  and  Supper  which  continued  till  four  in 
the   morning. 

The  Duke  is  highly  pleased  with  his  situation 
in  the  countery,  and  his  affection  for  his  horses 
continues  with  unabating  ardour.  There  is 
another  Serv't  engaged  on  their  acc't,  for  he 
can  never  be  satisfied  with  the  care  that  is  taken 
of  them  and  is  in  pain  when  the  air  of  heaven 
blows  on  them  too  roughly. 

I  would  have  been  Avell  pleased  if  his  Grace 
could  have  been  contented  with  horses  engaged 
by  the  month  or  season,  for  Reasons  which  I 
explained  to  your  Grace  in  a  former  letter,  the 
justness  of  which  Reasons  I  am  now  more  con- 
vinced of  than  ever,  but  that  could  not  be  done. 
I  beg  your  Grace  may  sometimes  remember 
me  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll  and  the  Ladies,  and 

*  The  Princes  of  Carignano  were  a  younger  branch  of  the 
House  of  Savoy,  and  were  the  ancestors  of  the  unfortunate 
Princesse  de  Lamballe  and  of  the  present  King  of  It«.ly. 


DR.    MOORE  375 

believe  me  always  to  be  with  the  most  perfect 
Respect 

Your  most  obed't  and  faithful  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Br.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Chatelaine,  August  14,  1773. 

I  did  not  write  to  your  Grace  by  the  last 
post  because  the  Duke  and  me  were  then  on  a 
Tour  to  the  Glaciers  of  Savoy,  from  which  we 
are  but  just  Returned.  These  are  prodigious 
Mountains  of  Ice  and  Snow  which,  falling  from 
the  highest  hill  of  the  Alps  during  the  Avinter, 
are  accumulated  into  such  solid  masses  that 
the  heat  of  summer  is  not  able  to  dissolve  even 
that  part  which  touches  the  Valies.  The  objects 
to  be  observed  in  this  tour  are  perhaps  the 
most  Grand,  The  most  Varied,  Curious,  and 
extraordinary,  that  are  to  be  met  with  in  any 
other  Part  of  the  world.  We  Returned  by  the 
small  Republick  called  the  Vallais — whose  Terri- 
tories are  so  wonderfully  fortified  by  Nature 
that  a  small  body  of  Resolute  men  could  defend 
all  the  passes  against  any  force  which  can 
possibly  be  brought  to  attack  them.  The 
simple  manners  of  these  people  are  finely  de- 
scribed by  Rousseau  in  his  Heloise — we  Returned 
also  by  the  little  Town  of  Clarense  and  the 
Rocks  of  Millerie,  where  your  Grace  will  Re- 
member the  principle  scenes  of  that  Romance 
passed. 

I  would  willingly  have  engaged  the  Duke  to 
have  wrote  your  Grace  a  particular  description 
of  what  was  most  observable  on  this  Tour, 
which  would    have  been   a  proper  employment 


376     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

for  him  and  much  miore  interesting  to  you 
than  the  same  from  any  other  hand ;  but  I 
must  not  conceal  from  you  that  the  bad  effects 
of  his  keeping  so  many  horses  are  but  too 
evident — as  they  occupy  his  mind  and  have 
ah'cady  weakened  his  attention  to  objects  of 
Real  importance,  and  have  in  some  degree  turned 
him  from  a  course  which  had  the  most  flattering 
apearance.  Tho'  the  horses  were  perfectly  well 
taken  care  of  by  the  man  in  whose  house  we  are, 
who  had  engaged  a  serv*  extraordinary  for  that 
purpose — who  had  two  Guineas  a  month  for 
each  horse — the  Duke,  on  pretence  that  they 
were  not  sufficiently  looked  after,  insisted  on 
engaging  another  serv*,  which  to  satisfy  him  I 
agreed  to,  thinking  this  was  to  be  only  a  Tem- 
porary matter  during  the  summer,  but  I  soon 
found  this  fellow  dress'd  in  a  new  Suit  of  Livery 
w*"  the  Duke  had  ordered  without  speaking  to 
me — so  that  there  is  little  reason  to  imagine  he 
will  be  inclined  to  diminish  the  number  of  his 
Horses  or  give  up  this  serv*,  who  is  quite  super- 
fluous during  the  winter. 

I  particularize  this,  but  the  same  turn  of  mind 
which  has  induced  him  with  much  perseverence 
and  some  art  to  carry  this  Point  has  made  him 
increase  very  considerably  every  part  of  his  ex- 
pence,  and  I  am  certain  if  it  is  not  checked  will 
still  go  on  augmenting.  I  believe  I  need  not 
Repeat  to  your  Grace  that  the  simple  considera- 
tion of  the  expence  is  of  less  importance  than 
other  consequences  which  accompany  this  Plan  of 
living— which  in  Reality  rather  diminishes  than 
adds  to  the  Duke's  importance  in  the  eyes  of  the 
People  here,  both  inhabitants  and  strangers, 
all  of  whom  know  his  business  here  was  im- 
provement  and   not   show — and   who   are   also 


DR.    MOORE  377 

sensible  that  in  proportion  as  the  last  is  aug- 
mented beyond  a  proper  degree  the  first  is 
diminished.  The  stile  of  the  Duke's  family  has 
been  from  the  begining  more  splendid  than  that 
of  any  stranger  of  whatever  eountery  who  has 
resided  here,  and  I  was  pleased  it  should  be  so, 
but  I  own  I  should  be  sorry  for  any  inerease. 

If  the  Duke  was  going  into  Italy  or  making  the 
Tour  of  the  German  Courts,  in  that  case  I  should 
be  particularly  attentive  that  his  whole  Equip- 
age and  appearence  should  be  in  the  most 
splendid  stile  that  his  Fortune  would  admit — • 
but  what  would  be  proper  then  is  in  every 
Respect  improper  now.  What  I  would  be  at 
by  all  this  (which  I  am  affraid  has  sufficiently 
tired  your  Grace)  is,  that  I  should  be  glad  to 
Receive  a  letter  address'd  either  to  the  Duke 
or  me  expressive  of  surprize  at  your  under- 
standing there  was  an  augmentation  of  Livery 
Serv*^  and  the  sums  drawn,  which  you  considered 
as  no  Proof  of  the  Duke's  real  Improvement — • 
this  will  be  the  case,  for  many  ace*"  will  be 
payable  immediately. 

I  can  assure  your  Grace  the  Duke  has  im- 
proved greatly  since  you  saw  him — he  has  many 
ameable  Qualities  and  an  excellent  under- 
standing— his  fort  is  a  Quickness  and  penetra- 
tion into  character  which  often  surprises  me  ; 
his  foible  is  a  love  of  show  and  an  uncontroulable 
desire  for  every  new  object,  which,  however, 
becomes  insipid  as  soon  as  acquired — and  so  he 
veers  about  to  another,  w''  remains  an  object  of 
desire  till  in  his  possession  and  then  is  dispised. 
Age  will  correct  this  in  everything  but  in  his 
taste  for  horses,  which  if  I  know  anything  of 
the  human  heart  will  gather  strength  by  years. 
I  am  the  more  uneasy  about  all  this  because  he 

VOL.   II.  4 


378     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

was  going  on  in  the  finest  Train  imaginable,  and 
all  is  in  danger  of  being  destroyed  by  a  Guilded 
Cabriolle,  horses,  and  an  equipage  by  mueh  too 
Glittering — which  is  I  plainly  perceive  laughed 
at  by  most  people  here,  even  the  English  who 
are  doing  any  Good.  If  he  could  have  had 
patience  for  one  year  more,  I  flatter  myself  his 
mind  would  have  gained  so  much  vigour  that 
it  would  not  have  been  in  .  .  . 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Dearest  Duchess, 

I  have  by  this  Post  wrote  on  the  subject 
you  desired  to  Baron  Mure,  as  also  on  another 
subject  in  which  I  feel  myself  much  interested. 

We  lately  made  a  Tour  to  the  Glaciers  of 
Savoy — before  we  arrive  at  these  we  have  two 
long  days'  journey  among  the  highest  mountains 
of  the  Alps.  Nothing  can  be  more  awfull  than 
the  appearance  of  these  vast  Mountains,  and  the 
rocks  which  in  many  places  hang  over  the  road 
and  threaten  the  passengers  with  destruction. 
We  saw  some  rocks  almost  as  big  as  Inverary 
Castle  which  had  fallen  from  the  Mountains  into 
the  Valley  and  make  the  scene  more  dreadful. 

These  Hills  are  covered  with  the  largest  pines 
I  ever  saw,  as  well  as  Oaks  and  other  Trees. 
The  Valleys  are  fruitfull  and  exceedingly  beauti- 
full.  Nothing  can  better  prove  the  superiority 
and  Grandeur  and  Magnificence  of  the  works  of 
Nature  above  those  of  art.  Versailles  is  the 
labour  of  a  child  when  compared  with  the 
Mountains  and  Valle3^s  of  the  Alps. 

The  Glaciers  themselves  resemble  the  sea  in 
fi  storm,  if  you  suppose  it  instantly  frozen  while 


DUKE    OF    HAMILTON  379 

in  its  highest  agitation.  We  returned  through 
a  Country  of  a  different  aspect,  where  all  the 
mild  rural  beauties  are  to  be  found.  But  I 
have  not  the  powers  of  description  in  a  suffi- 
cient degree  to  give  you  an  idea  of  all  the  varied 
beauties  of  this  dclightfull  Tour. 

Mr.  Moore  desires  to  join  me  in  Compliments 
to  all  the  family,  and  I  always  am 

Your  Loving  and  affectionate  son, 

Hamilton. 

Chatelaine,  Augitat  23,  1773. 

(Addressed)     A  Madame, 

Madame  la  Duchess  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 

a  Londres. 

franko  Paris, 

Dr,  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Chatrt.aine,  Sep'r  6,   1773. 

There  was  a  kind  of  Military  Entertainment 
at  this  Place  lately.  I  believe  your  Grace 
knows  that  the  Citizens  of  Geneva  are  all 
Soldiers.  They  are  formed  into  different  Corps 
and  are  continually  exercising  during  two 
months  every  Summer.  They  are  particularly 
fond  of  the  Exercise  of  the  Cannon  and  the 
Arquebuse,  for  they  know  Their  war  must,  like 
the  war  of  Troy,  consist  of  a  Siege.  He  who 
excells  in  the  direction  of  these  arms  is  con- 
sidered as  the  Hector  of  the  State.  There  has 
not  been  a  comparative  Trial  of  this  kind  these 
ten  years  till  this  Summer,  when  a  certain 
Moses  Maudrie  carried  of  tlie  Prize  from  many 
competitors  and  was  crowned  King,  as  they 
call  it,  of  the  Arquebusiers.  His  good  fortune 
gave  Universal  Satisfaction  because  he  is  a  man 


380     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  a  Worthy  character  and  who  had  done  real 
Service  to  the  RepubHck  during  their  late 
troubles,  for  which  he  had  Received  a  Gold 
hilted  Sword  in  a  present  from  the  State. 

On  account  of  his  Coronation  the  Entertain- 
ment was  given.  A  Camp  was  formed  on  a  Plain 
without  the  Town.  All  the  citizens  were  under 
Arms.  The  King  of  the  Arquebusiers  walked 
between  the  two  oldest  Syndics,  the  Duke  in 
the  next  Rank  between  the  two  Youngest ;  after 
them  Prince  Galizin  and  Lord  Stanhope,  flanked 
by  another  couple  of  large  Periwigs.  Messrs. 
Grenville,  Clive,  and  I  followed  them,  with  all 
the  Strangers  who  had  been  invited.  After- 
wards the  Council  of  twenty-five,  and  those 
Citizens  of  Geneva  who  were  particularly  re- 
lated to  the  King.  A  Band  of  Musick  play'd 
before  the  procession,  and  the  officers  saluted 
them  as  they  walked  past  the  Troops  drawn  up 
on  the  Plain.  They  then  placed  themselves  in 
an  amphitheatre  of  Benches  prepared  for  that 
purpose.  The  Troops  were  then  divided  into 
two  Armies,  a  Battle  was  fought,  a  Bridge  was 
attack'd  and  most  resolutely  defended,  a  convoy 
of  Provisions  was  Intercepted  on  the  March  to 
one  of  the  Armies  and  half  the  waggons  taken — 
the  rest  escap'd  by  Miracle.  Lord  Mohun,  who 
commanded  a  body  of  Cavalry,  performed 
wonders,  and  many  others  distinguished  them- 
selves, particularly  the  Generals,  who  to  be  sure 
had  an  amazing  quantity  of  Lace  on  their 
Clothes.  When  the  hurly  burly  was  done  and 
the  battle  lost  and  won,  his  Majesty,  etc., 
marched  back  to  the  Maison  de  Ville,  where 
dinner  attended  them,  and  a  great  deal  more 
execution  ensued  than  had  happened  in  the  field. 

After  a  few  Toasts  had  been  given,  the  Chief 


DR.    MOORE  381 


Syndic   gave   IMons.    Ic   Due    d'liamilt 
Noblesse   Etraiio:ere.     The  Duke   witli 


iltoii    et    la 
a  grace- 
fulness peculiar  to  himself    stood    up,   and  ex- 
press'd  his  sense  of  the  Honour  had  been  done 
liini  and  Drank  prosperity  to  the  Republiek  of 
Geneva.     Each  Toast  was  followed  by  a  flourish 
of   Kettledrums,    Trumpets,   and   the   fireing   of 
Cannon.     The   Dinner   was   more   warlike  than 
the  battle.     An  hundred  Granadiers  with  their 
Arms    actually    marched    into    the    Hall    where 
we    sate.     I    was    afraid    they    were    going    to 
Ammiise  us  with  a  General  discharge  from  their 
guns,    but   I   found   it   was   only   a   detachment 
from  the  army  to  drink  the  King's  health  in 
the  Royal   presence,   which   having  done,   they 
Retired    in    good    order.      Many    tables     were 
covered  in  the  Streets,  and  if  there  was  not  so 
much  Magnificence,   I  dare  swear  there  was  as 
much  real  festivity  at  the  Coronation  of  Moses 
the  first  of   Geneva  as  at  that  of   George  III. 
of   Great   Britain.     The   most   pleasing   part   of 
the    Entertainment    was    the    Cordiality,    Good 
will,   and   perfect    chearfulness   which   appear'd 
Universally    among    all    Ranks    of    this    happy 
little    Republiek,    where    the    Love    of    Liberty, 
and  Regard  for  the  Laws,  prevails  more  gener- 
ally than  in  any  part  of  the  World.     The  Duke 
observed  this  to  me,  and  said  nothing  could  be 
more  pleasant  than  to  see  a  whole  State  live 
togather  in  such  an  affectionate  manner,  where 
the  distinctions  of  Rank   and   Riches  seem   to 
create  no  Envy. 

I  fear  I  have  tired  your  Grace,  and  shall 
endeavour  to  encroach  less  upon  your  time 
for  the  future.  I  shall  only  add  that  I  am 
infinitely  sollicitous  that  the  Duke  should  im- 
prove  this   Winter,   because   if  he  spends   this 


382     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

well,  I  am  perswaded  he  will  spend  the  next 
better,  and  I  imagine  this  would  give  a  stamp 
to  his  character  for  life.  He  has  fine  talents 
and  many  admirable  qualities,  and  if  he  can 
be  perswaded  not  to  bestow  that  attention  (by 
which  he  could  comprehend  and  acquire  the 
most  useful  and  ornamental  knowledge)  upon 
meaner  objects,  I  am  certain  he  will  be  all  that 
your  Grace  can  desire.  Were  he  not  capable  of 
a  great  deal  more  than  he  does,  perhaps  there 
is  good  Reason  to  be  satisfied  with  the  Advances 
he  has  already  made. 

I  have  the  Honour  to  be  with  the  highest 
Regard 

Your  Grace's  ever  obed't  and  faithful 
humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

The  Duke  signed  all  the  papers  which  were 
sent  by  Mr.  Stuart,  and  I  have  returned  them 
to  Mr.  Davidson. 


Dr,  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

The  Duke  had  your  Grace's  letter  of  the 
23*^  of  August  this  forenoon ;  he  fully  intended 
to  have  wrote  by  this  Post,  but  he  has  fatigued 
himself  so  much  hunting  that  he  now  begs  to 
delay  it  till  to-morrow  morning.  I  fear,  how- 
ever, if  I  trust  to  that  your  Grace  may  be 
dissapointed  altogether.  I  shall  therefor  make 
certain  of  this  line  to  inform  you  that  all  is 
well,  and  if  the  Duke  is  better  than  my  ex- 
pectations you  shall  have  his  letter  also.  He 
expressed  the  highest  satisfaction  at  Lady 
Augusta's  recovery,  and  was  exceedingly  pleased 


DR.    MOORE  SSii 

with  lier  postcript  to  your  Grace's  letter,  as  it 
is  a  proof  of  her  being  quite  well. 

There  was  a  little  egarement  sometime  since 
— without  saying  anything  on  the  subject  I 
show'd  a  good  deal  of  concern,  and  this  at 
length  affected  him.  Things  are  now  in  a 
better  Train.  There  is  no  great  occasion  for 
Language  between  us  in  such  cases — he  under- 
stands my  meaning  fully  by  my  features,  and 
I  imagine  there  is  not  a  sentiment  of  his  mind 
imknown  to  me  before  he  communicates  it  in 
words. 

Your  Grace  enquires  about  the  horses.  I 
therefor  now  inform  you  that  they  are  in  good 
health,  but  I  am  not  without  hopes  that  one  of 
these  days  some  of  them  will  die  apoplectick — 
for  they  are  allowed  hardly  any  exersise  but 
eating.  The  Duke's  Sollicitude  about  these 
animals  goes  beyond  all  imagination ;  if  we 
propose  to  pay  a  visit  of  a  League  distance  in 
the  afternoon  in  the  Cabriolle,  he  always  walks 
that  morning  to  Geneva  when  he  goes  to  his 
Lecture,  that  the  Dear  creatures  may  not  be 
fatigued  with  the  Double  Journey  of  half  a 
League  in  the  morning  and  a  whole  one  in  the 
afternoon.  This  little  Redicule  was  noticed  by 
some  who  were  well  enough  inclined  to  sneer 
behind  the  Duke's  back.  I  soon  check'd  that, 
however,  for  tho'  I  often  put  these  things  in  a 
strong  and  sometimes  rediculous  light  to  the 
Duke  himself,  I  cannot  bear  that  any  other 
Person  should  when  he  was  not  present,  which 
however,  as  I  observed,  was  the  only  time  they 
durst  have  used  that  freedom. 

Some  time  since  he  was  infected  with  a 
wonderful  fit  of  Laziness,  and  tho'  he  often 
neglected  his  morning  Journey  to  Geneva — and 


384     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

sent  away  his  Musick  and  Fencing  Masters 
without  taking  a  Lesson,  tho'  they  come  to 
Chatelaine  at  a  triple  expence — I  said  nothing 
till  he  himself  observed  that  of  late  he  had  been 
very  Idle  and  wondered  I  had  not  spoke  of  it. 
I  answered  coldly — that  to  be  sure  his  friends 
would  be  much  dissapointed  and  the  mignionites 
greatly  rejoyced  when  they  heard  of  these 
things — yet  as  his  Indolence  gave  him  so  much 
pleasure  I  did  not  think  it  worth  while  to  dis- 
turb the  tranquility  of  his  enjoyment  for  what 
concerned  himself  nearer  than  any  other  body 
— only  (added  I)  my  Dear  Duke,  let  us  conceal 
the  matter  from  the  Dutchess,  that  she  may 
not  suffer  by  the  dissapointment  of  her  hopes 
till  she  actualy  sees  you.  I  then  fell  a  talking 
of  some  other  thing — which  indeed  I  might 
have  continued  long  enough,  for  he  kept  a  pro- 
found silence  the  Rest  of  the  evening — and  has 
not  omitted  a  single  lesson  since. 

Your  Grace  has  Reason  to  be  tired  of  my 
long  letters ;  to  alleviate  you  will  Receive  one 
from  the  Duke  next  post.  I  beg  you  will  offer 
my  Respectful  compliments  to  the  Duke  of 
Argyll,  and  from  my  heart  I  do  felicitate  your 
Grace  and  him  on  Lady  Augusta's  Recovery. 

I  Remain  Your  Grace's  ever  obed*' 

and  faithful  humble  serv*, 

J.  Moore. 

Chatelaine,  Sept.   13,  1773. 

{Addressed)     A  Madame 

Madame  la  Duchesse  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 
a  Londres. 

franko  Paris 


EARL    OF    DERBY  385 

The  Earl  of  Derby  to  Lady  Goxver. 

Lausanne,  Oct.  1th,   1774. 

My  dear  Lady  Gower, 

[After  describing  Swiss  mountains,  glaciers, 
and  cascades.] 

I  told  you  in  my  last  a])out  Duke  Hamilton. 
Since  that  I  have  had  a  great  deal  of  con- 
versation with  Dr.  ]Moore.  They  came  here 
on  their  w^ay  to  Brunswick,  he  intending  to 
stay  only  a  day  or  two,  but  he  could  not  get 
the  Duke  away,  and  all  the  World  talk  so 
much  of  his  attachment  to  Mrs.  Nobsen  that 
poor  Mr.  Moore  was  very  unhappy  about  it ; 
but  upon  the  Duke's  promising  to  follow  him 
to-day  a-horseback  he  set  out  last  Saturday 
for  Basle,  as  they  had  hired  nine  horses  from 
Geneva  to  carry  them  to  Basle,  and  paid  so 
much  a  day  for  all  the  time  they  kept  them. 

I  have  not  heard  if  the  Duke  is  gone  to-day. 
I  saw  him  at  ]\P  and  M'*  W.  last  Sunday,  at 
Dinner  at  Lady  Broughton's  (she  and  J\I'" 
Errington  are  here  a  few  weeks  on  their  way 
to  Italy,  to  consult  D""  Tissot  on  account  of  her 
health).  They  were  at  a  Ball  here,  when  we 
were  making  our  tour,  and  they  both  say  they 
never  saw  such  a  set  of  bad  dancers,  nor  sucli 
vulgar  awkward  people,  men  as  well  as  women, 
turning  in  their  toes,  etc.,  and  that  there  is  not 
a  Provincial  Town  in  France  where  there  are  not 
twice  as  genteel.  And  to  be  sure  for  Forward- 
ness and  Pertness  I  agree  with  them,  that  I 
never  saw  anything  like  the  Misses  here,  flaunting 
about,  leaning  on  Lord  Lindsy's  arm,  or  any  of 
the   young   men   here,   with   Hats   of   Feathers 


386     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

like   masquerade   dresses.     This    still   gives    me 
no  small  pain  on  Margaret's  account,   for  tho' 
she  thinks  it  very  odd  as  yet,  I  am  afraid  were 
she  to  be  long  here  she  would  not  like  to  keep 
in  my  quiet  way  when  she  sees  so  much  levity. 
Oct.  Sth — As  I  c*^  not  get  this  finished  for  last 
Post,    it    could    not   go   till    to-day.     You    may 
imagine  I  have  little  time  to  spare  when  I  tell 
you    Margaret    has    Masters    five    hours    in    the 
day,   and  that  I  make  it  a  rule  to  be  present 
when  they  are  with  her ;  and  of  late  I  have  been 
more  hurried  than  usual,   having  been  a  great 
deal  with  Lady  Broughton,  whom  I  like  vastly. 
Duke  Hamilton  went  away  last  Thursday.     He 
drank    Tea    with    me    the    Evening    before.     It 
gave  me  pain  to  see  how  melancholy  he  looked. 
He  is  vastly  liked  and  admired  here,  indeed  he 
must  be  so  everywhere.     I  am  glad  I  went  to 
M"    Schellenberg,    for    I    find    all    the     English 
went,  and  she  is  very  civil,  and  I  am  told  she 
likes   me.      It   is   astonishing   what   fatigue   she 
takes  going  about,  seeing  everything.     I  fancy 
'tis  that  she  may  write  everything  to  the  King, 
who  writes  constantly  to  her.     She  is  to  go  to 
Montpelier    for    the    Winter,    as    soon   as    Lord 
Holderness   is    able    to    travel,    being   to    spend 
the  Winter  there  altogether.     The  Duchesses  of 
Argyle  and  Ancaster  wrote  desiring  their  sons 
to  wait  of  her  immediately. 

I  hope,  my  dear,  you  are  perfectly  well.  If 
not  I  wish  you  would  have  your  case  wrote 
very  exactly  to  consult  the  most  surprising 
man  in  the  W^orld,  D""  Shuppach.  I  suppose 
his  fame  has  reached  England,  as  I  am  told 
they  come  to  him  from  all  corners  of  Europe. 
If  you  can't  conveniently  get  your  case  wrote 
in  French  I  will  translate  it  as  well  as  I  can. 


EARL    OF    DERBY  387 

as  I  w'^  do  anything  to  serve  you.     I  am  afraid 
you  have  lost  dear  Lady  Archibald  before  now 
out  of   your   neighbourhood.     I    wish    much   to 
hear  all  you  know  about  Lady  Dunmore. 
Ever  yours  more  than  I  can  say. 

[No  signature.] 


Br.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll  on  the  com- 
mission obtained  for  his  famous  son.  Sir 
John  Moore. 

Berlin,  June  12,   1775, 

I  have  received  the  letter  your  Grace  did  me 
the  honour  to  write  inclosing  Lord  Harrington's, 
by  which  I  perceive  I  have  little  reason  to 
expect  that  my  Son  would  get  a  Commision 
soon  even  if  I  would  declare  him  to  be  sixteen. 
Some  proposals  have  been  made  to  me  for  his 
entering  into  the  Prussian  or  Austrian  Service, 
and  much  patronage  promised.  The  Boy  speaks 
French  perfectly  well,  and  German  pretty 
fluently,  and  would  have  no  objection  himself, 
but  I  fancy  his  Mother  would  have  many,  and 
I  feel  Reluctance,  tho'  some  considerations 
tempt  me. 

I  perceive  that  your  Grace  imagines  that 
some  late  applications  in  favour  of  this  boy 
have  been  owing  to  my  SoUicitude  alone.  I 
beg  you  will  recollect  that  when  the  Princess  of 
Brunswick  offered  to  write  to  the  King,  I  could 
not  with  propriety  do  anything  to  prevent  this, 
and  therefor  contented  myself  with  informing 
her  Royal  Highness  of  the  Steps  your  Grace  had 
taken,  the  obstacles  you  had  met  with,  and 
that  it  would  give  me  much  pain  if  anything 
should  be  done  that  might  make  your  Grace 


388     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

imagine  I  had  any  doubt  of  your  Patronage  and 
goodwill.  She  said  she  would  take  care  of  that, 
and  so  after  expressing  my  thanks  I  said  no 
more,  tho'  at  that  time  I  was  well  informed  of 
the  State  of  her  influence  with  his  Majesty,  for 
even  here  we  are  not  quite  ignorant  of  the  Rises 
and  falls  of  the  Political  Thermometer  in  Eng- 
land. I  hope  your  Grace  will  no  longer  imagine 
that  this  happened  from  my  doubting  the 
Sincerity  of  your  goodwill  towards  me.  Such  a 
Sentiment  would  afford  me  so  much  pain  that 
there  is  no  danger  of  my  harbouring  it  on  slight 
grounds. 

We  had  left  Zelle  ten  days  before  the  poor 
unfortunate  Queen  of  Denmark  *  was  taken  ill. 
Your  Grace  may  be  very  certain  that  I  will 
endeavour  to  lead  the  Duke  from  every  place 
where  infectious  distempers  prevail,  but  to 
enable  me  to  do  this  I  must  mention  a  thing 
which  gave  me  much  uneasiness,  and  on  which 
I  hope  you  will  take  an  early  opportunity  of 
writing  with  earnestness.  The  Duke  has  been 
a  good  deal  with  two  young  English  officers 
during  the  Reviews,  and  w^as  siezed  with  a  sudden 
Whim  of  Accompanying  them  to  Magdebourg, 
wiiich  he  mentioned  to  me  as  soon  as  he  had 
arranged  matters  with  them  and  immediately 
before  he  sett  out ;  he  told  me  he  would  Return 
within  four  days.  As  we  had  already  seen  the 
Reviews  at  Potsdam  and  at  Berlin,  of  which 
those  at  Magdebourg  were  but  an  Epitome,  as 
we  were  En^aoed  to  dine  at  some  of  the  most 
distinguished  Houses  in  Berlin  for  several  days 
to  come,  &c.,  &c.,  I  saw  many  objections  and 

*  Caroline  Matilda,  "  The  Queen  of  Tears,"  sister  of  George  III., 
and  divorced  wife  of  Christian  VII.  of  Denmark.  She  died  on 
May  11,  177r>. 


DR.    MOORE  389 

would  have  willingly  turned  his  Graee  from 
taking  two  long  days'  Journey  to  a  place  from 
which  we  had  just  come.  Yet  I  also  saw  that 
he  was  bent  on  the  thing,  and  that  it  would  be 
impossible  to  put  him  off  it.  He  staid  longer 
than  he  intended,  and  Returned  by  Leipsiek 
some  days  since,  Much  fatigued  but  in  perfect 
health. 

I  pass'd  a  very  uneasy  time  during  liis 
absence,  the  more  so  that  I  was  obliged  almost 
every  day  to  attend  some  dinner  or  assembly 
which  had  been  formed  on  the  Duke's  acc't : 
once  at  Prince  Frederick  of  Brunswick's,  once 
with  Pr.  Ferdinand,  the  King's  Brother,  at  his 
House  three  Leagues  from  Town,  and  once  at 
an  Entertainment  given  by  the  Hereditary 
Princess  of  Prussia,  to  which  (tho'  I  have  put 
him  into  a  Private  Pension  to  be  out  of  the  way) 
my  Jack  was  invited  and  danced  both  with 
that  Princess  and  the  Princess  Frederick.  So 
that  while  my  head  was  like  to  turn  about  the 
Duke,  my  son's  was  in  danger  from  another 
Cause.  Your  Grace  may  believe  that  the  Duke's 
absence  Surprized  many  and  disobliged  some, 
but  no  human  being  can  be  more  perfectly 
indifferent  about  such  a  matter  than  the  Duke. 
Tho'  I  do  not  believe  there  is  much  danger  that 
he  will  take  such  a  Freak  soon,  for  he  is  not 
fond  that  I  should  be  from  him,  yet  to  prevent 
the  possibility  I  hope  your  Grace  will  write 
insisting  that  he  do  not  form  engagements  with- 
out my  approbation  or  at  least  Company.  The 
Duke  has  a  Strong  and  good  Constitution,  but 
he  is  subject  to  Violent  and  sudden  Complaints 
which,  I  thank  God,  have  hitherto  been  of  sliort 
duration,  from  a  method  of  management  which 
has  always  succeeded  witli  him,  but  which  I  am 


390     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

convinced   the   German   Physicians   would   not 
Use. 

Your   Grace    has    Received    flattering    acc'ts 
concerning  the  Duke,  I  will  give  you  a  true  one. 
With  regard  to  the  first  impression,  this  always 
is  greatly  in  his  favour,  for  devoid  of  the  Pert 
vivacity  of  a  French  Petit  Maitre  or  the  Super- 
cilious   reserve    of    an    English     coxcomb,     he 
possesses  all  the  easy  Elegance  of  a  Man  of  Rank 
and  Fashion.     He  converses  on  Subjects  which 
he  Understands  with  Grace,  and  on  those  which 
he  does  not  Understand  with  plausibility.     He 
is  not   fond   of  the  Company  of  his  Superiours 
either    in    Rank    or    Understanding.     The    first 
put  him  under  Restraint,  and  the  others  offend 
his    amour    propre.     There    is    nothing    I    have 
taken  such  pains  to  conquer  as  this  dislike  to 
the  Comp'y  of  those  who  he  imagines  have  more 
Talents,     natural    or    acquired,     than    himself. 
Easy,    good-natured   people   who   have   nothing 
positively    bad    in    them,    are   those    he    desires 
most  to  have  about  him ;  he  often  forms  Plans 
which   would   be   attended   with   much   benefit, 
but  he  has  not  yet  acquired  sufficient  Steadiness 
perfectly  to  follow  out  any.     In  all  our  schemes 
a  large  allowance  must  be  made  for  the  Chapter 
of  Accidents.     As  he  is  not  always  pleas'd  with 
himself  he  is  sometimes  peevish,  yet  his  Temper 
is  not  bad,  and  his  dispositions  are  much  better 
than   his   Temper.     He   cannot  bear   contradic- 
tion, and  is  subject  to  violent  gusts  of  Passion, 
but   is   incapable   of   harbouring   malice   or   Re- 
venge.    Tho'  he  cannot  practice  all  the  precepts 
of  Christianity,  Yet  he  has  a  Respect  for  Religion 
and  a  Sense  of  Piety  on  his  Mind,  perhaps  not 
without  some  share  of  Superstition ;  I  should  be 
sorry,  however^  to  see  the  last  effaced,  because 


DR.    MOORE  391 

on  the  whole  it  has  a  good  effect.  lie  has  not 
much  Curiosity  nor  Ambition,  w'h  is  much  to 
be  rcgreted,  because  in  him  they  miglit  be  so 
managed  and  directed  as  to  produce  tlie  best 
effects,  but  it  is  more  difficult  to  create  these 
Passions  than  to  direct  them.  When  he  returns 
to  Britain  one  of  these  things  may  happen.  He 
may  be  Suck'd  into  the  Wliirl  of  London  dis- 
sipation, pleas'd  with  the  admiration  of  Girls 
and  imitation  of  one  set  of  men ;  he  may  lead 
Modes  or  become  one  of  the  most  conspicuous 
figures  in  the  Fashionable  Circle,  and  satisfied 
with  that  species  of  distinction,  he  may  lose  all 
desire  for  a  higher  Ambition.  Or  Pleased  with 
Blind  approbation  and  undisputed  precedency 
he  may  prefer  living  in  Scotland,  surrounded  by 
Hunters  and  obsequious  Retainers, 

Like  Cato  give  his  little  Senate  Laws 
And  Sit  attentive  to  his  own  Applause. 

Or,  despising  the  degrading  distinction  of  being 
a  mere  man  of  mode  as  well  as  the  Dictatorial 
Pride  of  an  unimportant  Chieftain,  he  may  by 
a  Proper  exertion  of  his  Talents  Shew  that  he 
is  as  able  to  make  a  conspicuous  figure  in  the 
Senate  or  Cabinet  as  in  the  Drawing  Room, 
and  whether  he  betakes  to  a  public  or  Private 
life  become  a  Virtuous,  Rational  man,  happy 
in  himself,  beloved  by  his  freinds,  and  Esteemed 
by  every  body.  This  is  what  your  Grace  and 
I  have  Laboured  to  bring  about,  and  I  hope  our 
labours  will  not  be  in  vain.  Yet  I  must  say, 
and  I  say  it  from  full  j^erswasion  in  the  Sincerity 
of  my  heart,  that  I  think  matters  not  yet  ready. 
I  do  dread  London  or  Scotland  for  some  time 
to  come. 

The  character  of  the  woman  he  shall  marrv 


392     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

will  be  of  great  consequence  not  only  for  his 
private  happyness,  but  in  determining  the  walk 
he  is  to  choose  in  life.  If  she  be  a  weak  woman, 
tho'  as  beautiful  as  an  angel,  he  will  despise  her 
in  six  weeks ;  if  she  be  coquetish  in  the  smallest 
degree  he  will  be  offended  and  unhappy,  for  he 
is  naturally  Jealouse  and  infinitely  nice  in  his 
Ideas  of  Female  decorum.  If  she  be  haughty 
or  Capricious  he  will  detest  her,  and  in  all  these 
cases  will  Neglect  and  abandon  her.  If  your 
Grace  can  find  such  a  Woman  as  I  am  about  to 
mention  and  perswade  your  son  to  Marry  her, 
you  will  render  him  as  happy  as  he  is  Capable 
of  being.  She  must  be  healthful,  well  looked, 
and  of  a  good  Family,  Elegant  and  Modest  in 
her  Manners  and  exceedingly  Reserved  in  her 
conversation  with  men,  sensible  but  not  osten- 
tatious of  her  wit  and  never  pretending  to  be 
better  instructed  than  her  Husband,  Humane 
and  benevolent  in  her  disposition,  with  a  Prudent 
ambition  and  desire  to  see  her  Husband  of  im- 
portance in  the  State,  with  Real  freindship  and 
esteem  but  not  an  over  proportion  of  what  is 
called  Love  even  for  her  Husband — if  she  has 
too  much  of  this  last  she  is  in  danger  of  becoming 
troublesome,  and  will  certainly  be  subjected  to 
bear  with  caprices  from  his  part — in  short  she 
must  display  great  attention  to  acquire  and 
Retain  the  approbation  of  his  Judgement,  but 
that  she  feels  indignation  at  Unjustice  and 
despises  his  Caprice. 

The  Duke's  own  experience  has  not  con- 
tributed to  give  him  too  favourable  Notions  of 
the  Sex.  I  have  often  pointed  out  one  Example 
w'h  ought  to  correct  these  impressions,  which 
I  have  a  Real  desire  to  efface  because  I  have 
long  observed  that  an  Unjust  opinion  of  Women 


DR.    MOORE  393 

has  always  a  bad  effect  on  the  characters   of 
Men. 

I  have  wrote  with  much  openess  and  at  great 
Length  that  your  Grace  may  not  form  false 
Ideas  from  the  Representations  of  those  who 
have  not  an  oppertunity  of  knowing  the  bottom 
or  who  wish  merely  to  please.  I  beg  you  may 
forgive  the  trouble  I  have  given  you,  and  I 
assure  your  Grace  that  you  need  not  be  affraid 
to  open  any  letter  from  me,  for  I  shall  endeavour 
to  make  them  as  short  as  your  heart  can  desire 
for  many  Posts  to  come,  only  I  beg  you  will  give 
me  the  satisfaction  to  inform  me  when  you  have 
Received  this,  and  when  you  do  me  the  Honour 
to  write  pray  direct  either  to  J.  Moore,  Esq'r,  or 
a  Mons.  Moore,  Gentilhomme  Anglais  a  Berlin. 

We  came  from  Hanover  with  the  Honble. 
Mr.  Fortescue,  a  Young  Man  of  great  Merit. 
To  my  great  regret  he  leaves  us  in  a  few  days. 
We  Dine  or  Sup  with  some  of  the  Princes  two 
or  three  times  a  week ;  the  othe '  days  we  are 
Generaly  with  some  of  the  Forreign  jNIinisters. 
Mr.  Harris  has  been  exceedingly  obliging.  Our 
Scheme  once  was  to  move  to  Dresden  and  thence 
to  Vienna  about  the  beginning  of  July,  but  1 
suspect  we  shall  not  go  so  soon,  for  I  under- 
stand that  Madame  la  L.  is  to  be  here  about 
tliat  time  from  C.  Some  Female  Planet  always 
influences  our  Motions ;  at  Present  she  is  Queen 
of  the  Ascendant.  I  beg  earnestly  that  your 
Grace  will  keep  these  Astronomical  observations 
to  yourself.  Once  more  I  beg  your  forgiveness 
for  this  IMonstrous  long  letter,  and  I  am  with 
the  highest  Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obedient  and  most 
faithful  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

VOL.  n.  5 


394     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Berlin,  June  \7th,  1775. 

After  the  Unmercifully  long  letter  which  I 
wrote  to  your  Grace  on  the  12th,  I  dare  swear 
you  will  tremble  at  the  sight  of  this,  the  purport 
of  which,  however,  is  on  ace'  of  the  inclosed, 
which  is  from  a  young  lady  of  Quality  at  this 
court ;  some  letters  which  I  brought  from  her 
relations  at  the  other  Courts  we  have  already 
visited  procured  me  the  honour  of  her  acquaint- 
ance, and  as  she  is  in  all  the  societies  which  the 
Duke  and  I  frequent,  this  has  been  since  im- 
proved into  a  considerable  of  confidence.  Not 
being  sure  whether  Mr.  le  Comte  de  Guignes 
was  still  at  Paris  or  had  arrived  at  London, 
she  desired  me  to  inclose  it  to  your  Grace,  beging 
you  will  be  so  good  as  send  it  to  him  if  he  is 
alread}^  in  London  or  as  soon  as  he  shall  arrive, 
and  that  you  will  mention  in  the  first  letter 
you  do  me  the  honour  to  write  whether  he  has 
Received  it.  If  your  Grace  were  acquainted 
with  the  writer  I  am  certain  she  would  interest 
you  highly :  with  the  advantages  of  Birth, 
Fortune,  exquisite  beauty,  and  numberless  ac- 
complishments this  Lady  is  very  Unhappy ;  and 
what  renders  her  Situation  still  more  to  be 
Lamented,  her  unhappiness  proceeds  intirely 
from  the  goodness  of  her  dispositions  and  the 
aimiable  qualities  of  her  heart.  These  considera- 
tions will  plead  iny  excuse  for  the  Liberty  I 
have  taken,  tho'  I  do  not  trouble  your  Grace 
with  all  the  Reasons  I  have  for  using  it.  If  your 
Grace  happens  to  see  Mr.  de  Guignes  you  may 
let  him  know  the  news  of  his  having  gained  his 
Cause  occasioned  universal  satisfaction  here, 
where  he  is  greatly  esteemed. 


DR.    MOORE  395 

In  obedience  to  your  Grace's  desire  Duke 
Hamilton  and  I  will  set  out  for  Strelitz  in  a  few 
days.     I  have  the  honour  to  be 

Your  Grace's  most  obed''  and  ever 
faithful  humble  serv", 

J.  Moore. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  Mr.  Andrew  Stuart. 

Strelitz,  June  23rrf,  1775. 

You  had  better  direct  the 
Papers  to  the  Care  of  Sir 
Robert  Keith's  Secretary. 

Dear  Sir, 

I  am  very  sorry  you  have  had  so  much 
needless  Trouble  on  this  Affair  of  the  Pajoers. 
You  must  have  misunderstood  ni}^  meaning 
when  you  say  in  your  last  Letter  that  I  refused 
signing  the  Papers  you  sent.  I  should  never 
think  of  acting  contrary  to  wiiat  my  mother 
and  my  Guardians  thought  proper ;  all  that  I 
intended  to  have  expressed  in  my  last  Letter 
I  shall  again  repeat.  I  only  wished  to  have 
thought  a  little  on  the  subject  before  I  gave 
such  absolute  Power  to  persons  unknown  to  me, 
at  the  same  time  expressing  my  willingness  to 
sign  since  Messrs.  Nairne  &  Davidson  were 
thought  fit  persons  by  you  and  the  rest  of  my 
Friends.  I  only  took  the  liberty  of  adding 
another  Person  to  the  number  whom  I  do  know 
and  to  whom  surely  you  can  have  no  Objection. 
Baron  Mure  being  now  recovered  and  the 
number  compleat  with  Nairne  and  Davidson 
there  will  be  no  Occasion  for  sending  any  Papers 
abroad    for   Mr.    Moore's    Siofnet.     Hereafter   it 


396     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

may  be  of  use  to  me  to  have  Mr.  Moore ;  It  is  a 
little  Piece  of  Civility  to  him,  and  It  cannot 
possibly  hurt  any  one.  If  you  make  any 
Difficulties,  I  cannot  help  being  surprized,  as  I 
can  assign  no  reasons  for  those  Difficulties.  I 
hope  you  will  take  the  trouble  of  sending  the 
Papers  to  Vienna  drawn  up  as  I  have  desired, 
and  I  will  send  them  back  signed  as  soon  as 
possible.  Pray  give  my  best  Compliments  to 
your  Brother.  If  he  is  as  successful  as  I  wish 
he  may  be,  there  will  [be]  no  fear  of  his  gaining 
his  Cause  ;  but  should  he  fail  he  may  say,  and 
with  as  much  truth  as  any  man  :  'Tis  not  in 
my  PoAver  to  command  Success,  but  I'll  do 
more,  I'll  deserve  it. 

We  are  going  to  be  presented  to  the  Duke 
of  Strelitz  just  now,  therefore  I  shall  conclude 
by  assuring  you,  I  am  with  the  sincerest  Attach- 
ment 

Your  obliged 

(Signed)  Hamilton. 

(Endorsed)    Copy    Letter     from    the    Duke    of 
Hamilton  to  An.  Stuart.     23  June,  1775. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Beblin,  June  29th,   1775. 

On  the  21st  of  this  month  the  Duke  and  I 
set  out  for  Strelitz,  and  the  weather  being 
exceeding  warm  we  did  not  leave  Berlin  till 
about  six  in  the  evening.  The  first  post  is  about 
24  English  miles ;  our  Postilions  lost  the  way 
in  a  very  extensive  wood  between  this  and 
Oranianbourg,  were  after  wandering  for  several 
hours  we  were  obliged  to  Remain  till  daybreak, 


DR.    MOORE  397 

when  we  found  the  road  and  got  safe  to  the 
Posthoiise.  We  arrived  at  StreUtz  about  ten 
o'clock  at  night  on  the  22nd,  but  his  Serene 
Highness  and  the  Princess  were  at  Branden- 
bourg,  a  small  Town  twelve  Miles  farther  North. 
We  remain'd  all  night  at  Strelitz  and  set  out 
early  next  morning  for  Brandenbourg.  As 
soon  as  I  had  announced  his  Grace's  arrival 
his  Serene  Highness  sent  an  equipage  from  the 
Court  to  attend  him.  We  were  presented  to 
his  Highness  and  the  Princess  before  dinner. 
There  was  a  concert  of  Musick,  which  with  card 
playing  filled  the  interval  between  Dinner  and 
Supper. 

Next  day  we  pass'd  the  whole  day  at  Court, 
and  did  not  take  our  leave  till  very  late  at 
night.  Nothing  could  surpass  the  Gracious 
accueil  which  his  Highness  and  the  Princess 
gave  the  Duke  and  their  very  obliging  Civility 
to  me.  There  were  a  considerable  number  of 
the  Noblesse  of  the  neighbourhood  at  Court  all 
the  time  we  were  there.  There  was  none  of 
that  Stiff  Etiquette  which  is  at  some  of  the 
German  Courts,  all  was  easy  and  agreeable. 
His  Highness  is  a  Prince  of  great  good  Nature 
and  benevolence,  and  much  beloved  by  his 
subjects,  who  are  infinitely  happyer  than  in 
some  of  the  Neighbouring  States.  The  Princess 
is  unaffected  in  her  manners  and  Possesses  a 
great  share  of  Good  sense.  They  Both  press'd 
his  Grace  to  make  a  longer  stay,  but  as  we  had 
engaged  to  sup  this  night  with  the  Princess 
Dowager  of  Prussia,  The  Duke  was  obliged, 
w''  regret,  to  take  his  leave.  We  arrived  this 
day  at  Berlin,  and  have  just  Returned  from 
supping  with  the  Princess.  The  Duke  is  in 
perfect  health  and  sends  your  Grace  his  most 


398     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

dutiful  Compliments.     I  have  the  Honour  to  be 
with  great  Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obed*  and  most 
humble  Serv*, 

J.  Moore. 


Br.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll, 

Potsdam,  July  24,  1775. 

I  have  this  moment  Received  your  Grace's 
long  letter.  We  are  going  to  step  into  the 
Chaise  to  set  out  for  Dresden,  from  which  I 
shall  do  myself  the  honour  of  writing  fully ;  by 
your  last  I  was  not  sure  whether  your  Grace 
thought  me  Realy  to  Blame  in  not  attending 
the  Duke  from  Lausanne  and  to  Magdeburg,  or 
whether  you  wrote  in  that  Strain  in  consequence 
of  what  I  desired  in  one  of  my  letters  from 
Berlin.  I  must  therefore  beg  you  will  Recollect 
that  I  proceeded  from  Lausanne  without  the 
Duke  merely  that  I  might  engage  him  to  give 
his  word  of  Honour  that  he  would  follow  within 
four  days — without  w'c  he  and  his  female 
auxiliaries  might  have  wheedled  me  on  to  have 
pass'd  the  whole  winter  there.  And  when  he 
last  set  out  for  Magdebourg  it  was  a  sudden 
Resolution  which  he  did  not  communicate  till 
the  moment  before  he  set  out,  when  the  Partie 
was  arranged  with  the  two  officers  Independant 
of  me.  I  had  a  number  of  things  to  do,  to  write 
lines  to  the  People  with  whom  we  were  engaged 
to  dine,  &c.,  &c.,  and  they  would  not  wait  a 
moment,  so  that  I  had  hardly  any  alternative 
but  to  remain.  Besides  I  have  hitherto  had 
the  good  fortune  to  make  the  Duke  wish  for 
my  Comp'y,  and  I  am  sure  this  would  not  have 


Dil.    MOORK  309 

been  the  case  had  I  i'orced  my  Comp'y  on  him 
when  he  had  arranged  matters  without  me.  I 
beheve  he  was  sufficiently  tired  of  his  officers 
and  very  well  pleased  to  see  me  again.  So 
that  except  forty  or  fifty  Guineas  of  Unnecessary 
expence  there  was  no  harm.  Yet  I  will  not 
answer  against  another  Whim  of  the  same 
kind,  and  therefor  I  am  glade  your  Grace  wrote 
me  in  the  Strain  you  did,  which  I  think  you 
should  reiterate  occasionally.  I  am  too  anxious 
when  I  am  absent  from  the  Duke  ever  to  remain 
behind  When  there  is  not  some  forcible  Reason 
to  Retain  me. 

We  have  been  again  presented  to  the  King, 
who  spoke  near  an  hour  to  his  Grace  and  me. 
We  have  lived  at  Court  and  been  every  day  at 
Sans  Souci.  Of  this  more  from  Dresden.  I 
am  with  the  greatest  Respect 

Your  Grace's  ever  obed't  and 

faithful  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Prague,  August  3,  1775. 

Ilis  Grace  and  I  passed  ten  days  at  Potsdam, 
being  invited  to  attend  the  x\mmusements  Given 
on  acc*^  of  the  Landgravine  of  Cassel — during 
that  time  we  had  regular  invitations  from  the 
King  to  the  New  Pallace  at  Sans  Souci  every 
day  that  there  was  either  a  Play  or  an  Opera, 
and  in  the  Evening  we  wSup'd  with  the  Princess 
Amelia.  The  Landgravine  and  all  the  Princes 
and  Princesses  went  to  Berlin  on  the  21"',  to  his 
Majesty's  great  joy  who  had  display 'd  every 
symptom    of    tiredness   before    they    left    him. 


400     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

The  Prince  and  Princess  of  Prussia  alone  re- 
mained at  Potsdam ;  his  Grace  and  I  Supp'd 
and  took  leave  of  them  on  the  22**.  That  day 
an  adventure  happened  which  affected  many- 
People  in  that  Place.  The  King's  Principal 
valet  de  chambre  had  the  misfortune  to  fall 
into  his  displeasure ;  this  man  was  always  about 
the  King's  Person,  disbursed  all  his  money  for 
Personal  expences,  was  considered  as  a  great 
favourite,  was  Courted  by  every  body  even  the 
Ministers  themselves,  had  built  a  pretty  House 
in  a  Garden  near  Sans  Souci,  kept  st  Coach  and 
was  Reckoned  worth  a  good  deal  of  money. 
No  sooner  had  the  Strangers  left  the  Pallace 
than  his  Majesty  ordered  an  Aid  de  Camp  to 
conduct  this  Poor  man  to  Potsdam  and  put 
him  as  a  Common  Drummer  into  the  Reg*"  of 
Guards.  The  Man  threw  himself  at  the  King's 
feet  and  beg'd  that  he  might  be  saved  the  dis- 
grace of  Serving  as  a  Drummer,  and  only  be 
dismissed  his  Service ;  the  King  would  not  listen 
to  him.  He  then  beg'd  of  the  aid  de  camp  to 
allow  him  to  arrange  some  things  in  his  own 
chamber,  which  being  granted,  he  there  immedi- 
ately shot  himself  through  the  head.  The  King 
heard  the  Pistol,  entered  the  Room,  and  found 
the  Poor  man  dead  on  the  floor. 

The  Duke  and  I  arrived  at  Dresden  the  25*''. 
The  Court  were  all  in  the  country,  but  came 
to  Town  on  the  30%  when  his  Grace  and  I 
were  presented  to  the  Elector  and  Electress, 
with  whom  we  Dined.  In  the  evening  I  had 
the  honour  of  winning  a  good  many  Duckats 
from  the  Electress  Dowager  and  the  Princess 
Elizabeth,  which  seemed  to  afford  them  no 
manner  of  satisfaction.  As  the  Court  were  to 
Leave  Dresden  next  morning  for  some  months. 


DR.    MOORE  401 

His  Grace  determined  to  set  out  next  day  for 
Prague. 

Dresden  is  a  very  beautiful  Town.  The 
King  of  Prussia  destroyed  great  part  of  it  last 
war,  but  it  is  now  Rising  like  the  Phenix  from 
its  ashes.  I  dare  swear  the  King  Heartily 
wishes  the  Poor  Fellow  who  kill'd  himself  at 
Potsdam  could  do  the  same.  If  he  does  not 
he  must  have  a  good  hard  concience. 

We  arrived  yesterday  at  this  Town.  I  shall 
have  the  Honour  of  writing  to  your  Grace  very 
soon  from  Vienna.  We  had  heard  much  of  the 
Disturbences  in  Bohemea,  but  found  none — all 
seems  Quiet.  The  Duke  was  highly  delighted 
with  that  country,  which  often  brought  him  in 
mind  of  his  beloved  Switzerland.  About  Prague 
is  a  fine  fertile  country,  but  not  so  Pictoresquly 
beautiful  as  among  the  mountains.  I  will  not 
forget  what  your  Grace  told  me  about  the 
Duke's  writing  to  L.  Ch.,  tho  it  is  no  easy  task 
to  prevail.  The  Duke  is  in  good  health,  and 
sends  his  affectionate  compliments  to  your 
Grace,  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  and  Lady  Augusta. 
I  beg  they  may  at  the  same  time  accept  of  my 
humble  Respects.     I  ever  am 

Your  Grace's  most  Obed'  and  faithful  Serv', 

J.  Moore. 
(Addressed)     A  Madame 

Madame  la  Duchesse  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 
a  Londres. 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Vienna,  August  10th,  1775. 

I  was  surprized,  my  Dearest  Dutchess,  by 
some  conversation  I  lately  had  with  Mr.  Moore, 


402     INTIINIATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

that  there  was  any  difFieulty  made  about  our 
proceeding  next  month  to  Italy.  I  have  con- 
sidered all  the  objections,  and  they  appear  to 
me  and  to  many  with  whom  I  have  conversed 
to  be  frivolous.  Women  are  not  more  danger- 
ous there  than  elsewhere.  If  I  am  thought  an 
easy  prey  to  them,  I  ought  never  to  return  to 
Paris,  or  London — and  as  for  the  Men,  I  hope 
it  is  not  imagined  I  shall  adopt  their  manners. 
But  it  is  neither  for  the  Men  or  Women  I  wish 
to  go  to  that  country,  but  for  the  sake  of  the 
Country  itself,  which  if  I  had  not  an  impatience 
to  see  would  be  but  an  indifferent  sign  of  my 
Taste.  I  have  not  read  the  Roman  Classics  with 
so  very  little  feeling  as  not  to  wish  to  view  the 
Country  which  they  describe,  and  where  they 
were  wTitten,  and  I  never  can  find  so  fit  an 
opportunity  of  gratifying  my  curiosity  as  now 
when  so  near.  I  have  no  inclination  to  leave 
Britain,  when  I  have  once  returned.  This  I 
should  think  in  some  measure  necessary  if  I 
return  at  least  without  having  seen  Italy. 

I  was  persuaded  to  turn  about  into  Germany 
last  year,  when  I  wished  to  have  proceeded  to 
Italy,  but  nothing  shall  engage  me  to  abandon 
my  Plan  this  Season,  w^hich  is  to  leave  Vienna 
towards  the  end  of  Sept'r  and  proceed  to  Venice 
thro'  the  Tirol,  from  thence  to  Florence  and 
Rome,  where  we  shall  pass  the  greatest  part 
of  the  Winter,  making  an  excursion  to  Naples. 
If  the  prejudices  of  Lord  Chesterfield  are  just, 
I  shall  be  in  little  danger  from  the  Effeminate 
or  Profligate  Manners  of  the  Inhabitants,  be- 
cause I  shall  be  satisfied  with  a  short  stay, 
having  promised  to  Mr.  Moore  to  be  at  Geneva 
by  the  month  of  May,  or  June,  next,  for  it  will 
be  best  to  return  by  Turin.     After  some  stay  in 


DUKE    OF   HAMILTON  403 

France  I  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  to  embracing 
my  ^lother  at  London.  By  this  means  my 
Tour  will  be  compleat.  I  shall  have  no  induce- 
ment to  return  to  the  Continent,  but  shall 
endeavour  to  fix  myself  agreeably  in  Britain 
for  the  rest  of  my  Life.  This  appears  to  me 
the  best  plan  I  can  adopt.  It  would  make  me 
unhappy  to  follow  any  other,  and  I  hope  no 
other  will  be  desired. 

I  find  Vienna  tolerably  agreeable,  but  I  shall 
have  more  than  enough  of  it  by  the  end  of 
Sept'r.  We  are  already  acquainted  with  every 
body  here,  and  have  no  other  loss  in  the  absence 
of  Sr.  R.  Keith  than  not  enjoying  the  pleasure 
of  his  Company.  Adieu,  my  Dearest  Duchess, 
and  believe  me  always 

Your  affectionate  son 

Hamilton. 

P.S. — I  hope  Lady  Charlotte  is  better.  I 
should  have  wrote  to  Mrs.  Charters  to  enquir 
how  Lady  Charlotte  does  before,  but  as  I  do 
not  know  the  address  to  Mrs.  Charters,  I  hope 
you  will  give  yourself  the  trouble  of  delivering 
the  enclosed  to  her.  I  beg  my  respects  to  the 
D.  of  Argyll  and  love  to  Augusta,  little  George, 
et  la  picolissima  Sorella. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Vienna,  August  IG,   1775. 

I  had  the  honour  of  writing  to  your  Grace 
from  Dresden.  From  that  City  we  proceeded  to 
Prague,  where  we  Stay'd  only  three  days.  I 
wrote  to  Mrs.  Moore  from  thence,  and  desired 
her    to    inform    your    Grace    that    the    Duke 


404     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

was  well.  From  Prague  we  had  an  agreeable 
Journey  thro'  Bohemia  and  Moravia  to  Vienna. 
As  the  Court  went  to  Presburg  the  day  after 
our  arrival,  we  could  not  see  the  Empress  till 
her  Return.  But  in  the  interval  we  visited 
Prince  Kaunitz,  the  officers  of  State,  and  prin- 
cipal Nobility,  by  whom  We  have  been  enter- 
tained in  the  most  hospitable  manner,  and  have 
a  General  invitation  to  the  best  Societies  and 
Coteries  in  Vienna.  On  Sunday  last  we  were 
presented  first  to  the  Emperour  at  the  Pallace  in 
Town,  and  then  to  the  Empress  Queen  at  her 
House  in  the  Country.  They  both  behaved  in 
the  most  obliging  and  affable  manner.  Each 
of  them  conversed  a  considerable  time  with  the 
Duke,  and  made  many  Inquiries  about  the 
different  Courts  in  Germany  where  we  have 
been.  We  were  presented  by  the  Count  Degen- 
feld,  the  Dutch  Ambassador,  who  is  charged 
with  this  office  for  English  Gentlemen  who  pass 
this  way  in  the  absence  of  Sir  Rob't  Keith, 
Prince  Kaunitz,  who  is  the  First  Minister,  has 
been  remarkably  obliging,  and  insisted  on 
taking  my  son  on  this  occasion,  who  was  also 
presented  to  the  Emperour  and  Empress,  who 
received  him  with  much  goodness.  This  day 
we  dined  with  the  Prince  at  Laxenberg,  a 
Pallace  about  six  miles  from  Vienna.  He 
insisted  also  on  our  staying  Supper,  which  in- 
vitation the  Duke  accepted,  and  we  are  just 
Returned,  and  tho'  it  is  now  past  two  in  the 
morning  I  did  not  choose  to  go  to  bed  till  I 
had  wrote  to  your  Grace,  as  the  Post  goes  away 
about  eight. 

The  Duke  seems  Resolved  to  make  a  Tour 
into  Italy  this  autumn  and  winter,  and  cannot 
bear    the    thoughts    of    Returning    till    he    has 


DR.    MOORE  405 

accomplished  that  Plan ;  he  wrote  to  your  Grace 
on  that  subject  in  Consequence  of  some  Con- 
versations we  had  togather  since  we  left  Dresden  ; 
before  I  had  always  avoided  the  subject,  tho' 
I  knew  that  he  had  counted  on  this  as  a  matter 
certain.     I  will  say  nothing  further  but  that  I 
shall  endeavour  to  conform  all  in  my  power  to 
your  Grace's  sentiments  in  tliis,  but  I  think  it 
will  be  next  to  impossible  to  turn  him  from  his 
Scheme,  and  I  am  sure  not  without  Vexing  him 
in  the  highest  degree.     I  find  it  very  difficult 
to    answer    the    Reasons    he    urges — which    are 
these :  I  wish  to  fmish  this  matter  of  Traveling 
at  once,  for  I  shall  have  no  desire  to  go  abroad 
any  more.     It  is  ridiculous  to  Return  without 
having  seen  Italy.     I  do  not  wish  to  stay  there 
long,  for  I  give  you  my  word  to  leave  it  next 
Summer,  and  shall  only  (as  it  were)  Run  over 
the   Country.     If   I   did   not  go   now   I   should 
Return  the  IMoment  I  was  Major  and  make  a 
much    longer    Stay.     We    are    now    near    that 
Country,    therefor   let   us   go   in   Sept'r   or   the 
beginning   of   October,    and   when    I   Return    I 
shall  think  of  Nothing  but  establishing  myself 
at  home  for  Life,  whereas  I  never  shall  think  of 
any  Establishment  till  I  have  made  this  Tour 
on  which  my  heart  is  set,  for  I  will  not  be  insulted 
by  a  Parcel  of  fellows  telling  me  about  Rome, 
&c.,  when  I  have  as  good  a  Right   to   indulge 
myself  by  visiting  it  as  any  of  them.     I  will 
confess  to  your  Grace  that  my  own  opinion  is 
the  Duke  should  not  be  opposed  in  this,   be- 
cause I  am  convinced  it  will  have  a  bad  effect. 
I  will  also  confess  that  I  have  a  strong  desire 
myself  to  see  Italy,  but  I  do  assure  you  that 
neither  my  opinion  nor  my  desire  shall  prevent 
me  from  acting  conformable  to  your  Ideas,   if 


406     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

your  Grace  after  what  I  have  said  should  signify 
your  being  against  our  proceeding  to  Italy.  I 
beg  leave  to  offer  Respectful  Comp'ts  to  the 
Duke  of  Argyll  and  to  Lady  Augusta,  and  I 
remain 

Your  Grace's  Faithful  and  most  obed't 
humble  Serv't, 

J.  M. 

Our  Expences  are  much  greater  here  than 
they  have  ever  been.  This  is  necessary  and 
proper,  but  I  believe  I  have  got  the  Duke 
Intirely  turned  from  Gaming,  and  I  consider 
this  as  1,000  or  perhaps,  2,000  pounds  a  year 
saved. 


Br.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Vienna,  Aug.  29,   1775. 

I  had  the  honour  to  inform  your  Grace  that 
the  Duke  and  I  have  been  presented  to  the 
Empress  Queen,  the  Emperour,  and  the  Arch 
Duke  and  Dutchesses.  The  first  seems  to  me 
to  possess  the  Zeal  and  devotion,  and  the  second 
the  benevolence,  of  the  Christian  Religion.  No 
Prince  can  be  more  beloved  than  the  Emperour ; 
he  is  extremely  affable,  and  detests  the  Pomp 
and  Ceremony  w'h  is  so  generally  loved  by  the 
Germans ;  he  drives  himself  in  a  plain  chaise, 
the  coachman  behind,  and  without  another 
attendant.  He  frequents  the  Societies,  and  will 
allow  no  particular  notice  to  be  taken  of  him. 
I  met  him  a  few  days  since  at  the  Countess 
Walstein's.  He  took  me  to  a  window  and 
conversed  above  half  an  hour  with  the  highest 
affability,  so  as  to  put  me  perfectly  at  my  Ease. 
He   made   many   enquiries   about   the   King   of 


DR.    MOORE  407 

Prussia  and  an  adventure  w'h  had  happened 
while  we  were  at  Potsdam,  afterwards  about 
Voltaire.  I  was  sorry  the  Duke  was  not  there ; 
he  had  gone  that  night  to  the  Opera. 

We  generaly  dine  and  Sup  at  the  Prince  Kau- 
nitzes  once  a  week.  lie  lives  at  Laxenberg,  two 
Leagues  distant  from  Vienna.  In  the  Town  we 
may  be  in  some  society  every  evening.  Count 
Degenfeldt,  the  Dutch  Ambassador,  in  the 
absence  of  Sr.  Rob't  Keith,  has  shew'd  much 
attention  to  his  Grace.  We  were  invited  some 
time  ago  by  the  French  Ambassador  to  dine 
on  the  Top  of  a  High  hill  near  this  place  where 
there  is  a  convent.  There  was  Prince  Lock- 
witz,  several  forreign  IMinisters,  many  Ladies, 
in  all  a  large  company.  We  were  drag'd  up 
the  hill  in  machines  made  for  that  purpose. 
The  Duke  lost  patience  in  the  Machine,  and 
walk'd  up  in  spite  of  some  remonstrance  on  my 
part,  and  more  on  that  of  some  of  the  Ladies. 
The  day  was  sultry  hot,  he  was  greatly  heated, 
and  to  that  I  imputed  a  shivering  fit  he  was 
seized  with  the  day  after  while  we  were  dining 
with  the  Spanish  Ambassador.  He  went  home 
and  was  put  to  bed  ;  the  cold  fit  was  very  strong, 
and  the  hot  fit  after  it  as  Violent.  He  was 
blooded  that  night.  Next  day  he  took  a  dose 
of  James's  Powder,  which  sweat  him  greatly. 
The  third  day  the  fever  was  considerably  abated 
but  not  quite  gone.  I  gave  him  a  second  dose 
of  the  Powder,  which  wrought  him  several 
different  ways,  and  the  fever  totally  disappeared. 

He  is  now  as  well  as  ever,  yet  I  prevailed  with 
him  not  to  go  Esterasi,*  where  we  were  invited 
by  that  Prince  to  a  great  entertainment  given 
at  his  House  in  Hungary,   a  day  and  a  half's 

*  Esterhazy. 


408     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

journey  from  Vienna.  The  feast  continues 
three  days ;  all  the  Court  are  there.  There  are 
to  be  plays,  operas,  masquerades,  and  finally  a 
Fete  Champetre  in  the  Park.  This  Prince  has 
an  immense  Estate,  and  lives  in  a  stile  of  mag- 
nificence greatly  beyond  any  Subject  in  Europe. 
The  Entertainment  they  have  been  preparing 
for  many  months,  and  I  dare  swear  it  will  be 
mighty  fine.  Yet  I  am  exceedingly  happy  that 
the  Duke  has  been  perswaded  to  remain  at 
home,  for  it  would  have  been  too  fatiguing  for 
him  who  is  still  a  little  weak  tho'  otherwise 
quite  well,  and  your  Grace  may  now  be  as  easie 
as  if  nothing  had  happened. 

I  have  the  honour  to  remain  with  the  greatest 
Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and  most 
humble  serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

Your  Grace  may  now  declare  Jack  to  be 
sixteen,  as  he  is  actually  turned  of  15  and  in  his 
sixteenth  year.  I  am  fully  convinced  if  you 
saw  the  boy  you  would  not  be  displeased  to 
patronize  him  on  his  own  acc't  and  Independant 
of  the  good  will  w'h  I  have  every  Reason  to 
believe  your  Grace  bears  me. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Vienna,  Septr.  5,   1775. 

Lest  any  Inquietude  should  Remain  on  your 
Grace's  mind  on  Acc't  of  the  Duke's  late  illness, 
I  take  this  opertunity  to  Inform  you  that  he  is 
now  well  Recovered  in  every  Respect,  only  a 
little  weakened  by  the  attack,  which  was  pretty 


DR.    MOORE  409 

severe.  The  Duke  has  a  good  and  even  Vigorous 
Constitution ;  except  a  short  fever  of  tlie  putrid 
kind  w'h  he  had  at  Chatelaine  he  never  has  had 
any  comphiint  but  what  was  evidently  of  his 
own  procuring.  lie  cannot  stand  any  kind  of 
Irregularity,  and  has  had  at  different  times 
smart  Illnesses  from  excessive  exersice  during 
hot  weather. 

We  were  yesterday  at  a  House  in  the  Countery 
where  the  Emperor  was,  who  Remained  two  or 
three  hours  Conversing  in  his  usual  Manner  with 
every  one  in  the  most  easy  familiar  Manner. 
Some  Sentiments  he  cxpress'd  to  me  gave  me 
the  best  opinion  of  his  Dispositions.  But  I  am 
affraid  of  troubling  your  Grace  with  a  long 
letter,  and  shall  therefor  Reserve  an  Acc't  of 
that  for  my  first  letter  to  Mrs.  Moore.  I  beg 
your  Grace  may  not  allow  the  Duke  of  Argyll 
nor  my  Lady  Augusta  to  forget  me,  and  believe 
me  to  be  with  invariable  Respect 

Your  ever  obed't  and  faithful  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

Since  I  have  been  Abroad  I  have  acquired 
different  Ideas  from  what  I  formerly  had  Re- 
lative to  the  Education  of  Young  People  of 
Rank.  I  am  Strongly  convinced  that  I  am  in 
the  Right,  and  when  I  shall  have  the  Honour 
to  see  Your  Grace  and  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  I 
shall  explain  myself  fully.  His  Grace  will  have 
time  to  consider  whether  to  adopt  any  Part  of 
my  Notions  with  Regard  to  Lord  Lorn. 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 


I  do  not  know  to  what  attribute  your  long 
lence. 

VOL.   II. 


jilence.     If    it    is    from    anger    against    me    for 


410     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

something  I  have  done,  I  declare  to  you  on  my 
Honour  I  am  ignorant  of  my  Offence.  If  your 
Silence  is  occasioned  by  bad  Health  (which 
God  forbid),  you  might  at  least  have  bid  some- 
body write  the  bad  news,  &  not  leave  me  in  so 
long  &  disagreable  an  incertitude.  If  from 
indifference — -then  indeed  I  am  to  be  pitied — 
but  I  cannot  imagine  that  three  years'  absence 
can  have  made  a  Mother  so  totally  forget  a 
Son  whom  she  once  loved.  Supposing  absence 
has  had  that  Effect,  I  am  sorry  to  say  our  Minds 
must  be  very  differently  formed.  I  wrote  you 
a  letter  about  a  Month  past  from  this  Town, 
which  I  suppose  you  have  received.  For  the 
Future  I  shall  trouble  you  as  seldom  as  possible. 
Permit  me  to  finish  by  assuring  you  I  shall 
always  remain  your  Dutyfull  &  Obedient  Son, 

Hamilton,  &c. 

ViExXNA,  Sep"  lOth  [1775]. 

(Addressed)      A  Madame 

Madame  la  Duchesse  d'Argyll 
(Argyll  House) 

a  Londres. 

{Par  Ostcndc.) 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Vienna,  SepW  20,   1775. 

It  is  A  long  time  since  we  had  the  pleasure 
of  hearing  from  your  Grace.  This  silence  the 
Duke  bears  with  impatience,  for  tho'  he  is  not 
fond  of  the  task  of  writing  letters,  yet  few  things 
give  him  more  pleasure  than  Receiving  them 
from  those  he  loves,  and  I  am  perswaded  there 
is  never  above  one  woman  in  the  World  whom 
he  loves  more  than  Your  Grace,     I  hope  this 


DR.    MOORE  411 

will  be  always  the  case,  and  I  imagine  Your  Grace 
must  be  satisfied  with  this  Rank.  In  a  letter 
you  did  me  the  honour  to  address  me  some 
time  since,  you  demand  what  right  the  Duke 
has  to  expect  so  much  self-denial  and  so  many 
accomplishments  in  a  wife,  while  he  indulges 
himself  in  freedom,  and  takes  little  pains  to 
mend  failings  or  check  his  caprices.  No  doubt 
he  has  no  right  at  all,  nor  in  the  previous  letter 
which  I  wrote  to  your  Grace  (where  I  mentioned 
what  kind  of  Wife  would  best  suit  him)  did  I 
enumerate  these  Qualities  as  what  were  abso- 
lutely his  due,  but  as  being  essential  to  his 
enjoying  a  tolerable  degree  of  happiness  in  the 
married  State,  and  without  which  I  am  con- 
vinced he  had  best  never  be  married.  A  young 
man  of  Fortune  and  high  Rank  who  has  been 
accustomed  to  have  every  desire,  every  little 
caprice  indulged,  who  finds  a  Set  of  Spaniels, 
wherever  he  goes,  ready  to  fetch  and  carry  for 
him,  whose  person  and  address  interests  the 
hearts,  while  his  Title  awakens  the  vanity  of 
Women,  such  a  man  will  certainly  require  more 
talents  and  address  in  a  Wife  than  a  Man  whose 
situation  in  life  has  taught  him  to  Controul  his 
own  desires  and  adapt  his  Conduct  to  the  Mind 
of  others.  If  I  have  studied  the  Duke's  char- 
acter with  success,  he  will  not  only  need  a  wife 
of  sense  and  accomplishments,  but  one  of  the 
condescending,  self-denying  spirit  I  formerly 
Mention'd.  If  your  Grace  can  fmd  such  a  Person 
It  will  be  fortunate  for  him.  I  imagine  he  will 
prefer  a  life  a  good  deal  Retired,  and  I  have 
some  Notion  that  his  happiness  here,  perhaps 
hereafter,  will  depend  on  the  character  of  the 
woman  he  shall  be  married  to. 

Vienna    is    a    mighty    agreeable    place    and 


412     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

beyond  comparison  the  properest  for  his  Grace 
of  any  we  have  been  in  since  we  came  to  Ger- 
many. The  manners  and  morals  of  the  people 
are  much  more  elegant  and  Correct  than  at  any 
of  the  Courts  we  formerly  saw.  There  are 
always  some  English  wherever  we  go ;  those 
who  are  here  at  present  are  of  a  better  Stamp 
than  most  we  have  Seen.  The  Duke  prefers 
their  Comp'y,  tho'  in  my  opinion  the  Society  of 
the  Place  is  preferable.  I  unite  more  intimately 
and  readily  with  Strangers  than  the  Duke ;  this 
has  always  been  the  Case  wherever  we  have 
been,  tho'  his  Grace  speaks  the  French  more 
correctly  and  with  a  better  accent  than  me. 
He  is  naturally  Reserved,  and  cannot  take  the 
Trouble  to  Cultivate  those  acquaintances  who 
Require  attention.  His  Reserve  may  on  many 
occasions  be  Useful,  and  perhaps  is  becoming  a 
person  of  his  Rank.  It  were  to  be  wished  that 
he  kept  it  in  the  Comp'y  of  People  beneath  his 
own  Standard  of  Understanding  and  Rank  as 
much  as  he  does  with  others.  Your  Grace  will 
easily  perceive  that  Indolence  alone  makes  him 
sometimes  choose  his  company  contrary  to  his 
Judgement. 

The  Court  gave  a  magnificent  Supper  and 
Bal  Masque  lately,  and  two  days  after  we  were 
again  Invited  by  the  Empress  to  Court,  where 
there  were  Illuminations,  &c.,  &c.,  on  acc't  of 
the  Grand  Duke  and  Dutchess  of  Modena,  who 
are  here  at  present.  The  Illuminations  were 
finer  than  any  thing  I  have  ever  seen.  They 
were  in  a  Garden.  A  Castle  opposite  to  the 
Palace  seemed  one  continued  flame,  but  Re- 
taining the  figure  of  a  Building,  something  like 
Chatelaurehault,  from  which  tumbled  sheets  of 
flame  in  the  form  of  cascades.     There  were  a 


DR.    MOORE  413 

hundred  and  eighty  thousand  Lamps  burning 
on  this  occasion.  If  your  Grace  thinks  this 
exaggerated  Impute  it  to  those  who  told  me, 
from  whose  acc't  I  have  Retrench'd  40,000 
Lamps,  for  I  thought  220,000  Lamps  full  of  Oil 
Rather  too  much  for  your  Grace  to  swallow  at 
once. 

I   have    the  honour  to   be  with   all    possible 
Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and 

faithful  humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr,  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Florence,  May  24,  1776. 

The  Duke  left  Rome  early  on  the  19th.  AVe 
travelled  that  day  and  night,  the  day  and  night 
following,  without  stoping,  and  arrived  at  this 
place  about  eight  o'clock  of  the  morning  of  the 
21st.  The  Duke's  suit  make  a  showy  enough 
appearance.  They  consist  of  four  footmen  in 
crimson  laced  with  silver  beside  Mr.  Templeton. 
The  number  of  Horses  Requisite  is  Inconvenient 
in  Italy :  there  is  no  help  for  this ;  with  the 
Duke's  disposition  and  at  his  age  Conveniency 
is  generally  Sacrificed  to  show.  The  Duke, 
however,  is  very  simple  in  his  own  dress. 

I  hope  your  Grace  has  Received  all  the  letters 
I  wrote  from  Naples  and  Rome.  We  made  a 
very  short  stay  at  Rome  at  our  return  from 
Naples,  and  would  not  have  Remained  so  long 
as  we  did  had  not  it  been  for  his  Grace's  sitting 
to  Pompeio  *  for  his  Portrait  for  your  Grace. 
It  is  to  be  a  large  full  length.     The  Face  only 

♦  Pompeio  Battoni.     See  illustration.     Original  at  Inveraray. 


414     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

was  finished  when  we  left  Rome.  He  is  to  be 
paid  as  he  proceeds,  and  therefore  there  is 
Reason  to  beUeve  he  will  not  delay  so  very 
much  as  is  his  custom.  The  Picture  is  to  be 
sent  the  first  opportunity  after  it  is  finished, 
along  with  some  others  belonging  to  the 
Duke. 

I  believe  I  hinted  in  some  of  my  letters  that 
the  Duke  began  to  shew  a  fondness  for  virtu, 
and  a  great  inclination  to  make  purchases.  This 
desire  is  always  mightily  encouraged  by  a  set 
of  designing  People  in  Italy.  It  was  with 
infinite  difficulty  I  got  him  turned  from  giving 
two  hvmdred  &  fifty  pounds  for  a  little  cameo 
of  Caligula.  The  thing  was  fine  to  be  sure,  but 
I  am  sure  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  are 
finer,  and  the  Duke  will  think  so  before  he  has 
lived  a  year  in  Britain.  He  gave  up  also,  after 
much  persuasion,  a  necklace  of  antiques  which 
he  intended  as  a  present  for  your  Grace.  This 
was  ugly  in  itself,  and  I  imagined  the  graces  it 
derived  from  its  antiquity  would  not  be  suffi- 
cient to  incline  your  Grace  to  wear  it. 

The  Duke  and  Dutchess  of  G.*  still  hold  their 
Court  at  Rome.  Your  Son  has  never  been  a 
great  Favourite :  I  cannot  tell  for  what  reason, 
for  he  always  shew'd  every  proper  attention ; 
perhaps  some  sin  of  the  Parent  is  visited  upon 
the  Son.  Lady  E.  S.  was  once  in  high  favour 
and  very  much  at  Court ;  that  is  not  the  case  now. 
She  did  not  chuse  to  go  where  Lady  M.  Gordon 
could  not  be  admitted,  and  it  seems  her  R.  H. 
declared  that  this  was  absolutely  impossible,  on 
acc't  of  her  age.  Every  Body  regreted  this 
because  the  young  lady  is  much  admired,  and 
tho'   She  has   every   Visible   Mark   of   a  grown 

*  Gordon. 


DR.    MOORE  415 

woman,  yet  it  seems  she  wants  some  months 
of  the  Court  age ;  and  so  as  the  thing  was  im- 
possible she  was  obhocd  to  Remain  at  home, 
and  Lady  E.  has  thought  proper  to  Refuse 
herself  the  pleasures  of  Splendor  and  Remain 
with  her. 

We  left  Sr.  II.  F.  at  Rome,  who  has  been  the 
Duke's  inseperable  companion  for  some  months 
past.  He  is  good  natured,  formal,  effeminate, 
and  obliging,  without  violent  Passions  or  Am- 
bition, a  negative  character  who  will  Rather 
be  acted  upon  than  act  for  himself.  If  I  am 
not  deceived,  he  has  become  very  fond  of  Miss 
Gower,  sister  to  Lady  Cowper,  who  is  now  with 
her  Mother,  a  very  amiable  woman,  at  Rome. 
As  Sr.  H.  is  not  a  man  to  control  any  Inclination 
that  he  can  gratify,  I  dare  say  he  will  yield  to 
his  present  penchent.  Proposals  will  be  made, 
and  he  has  an  Estate  of  Seven  or  Eight  thousand 
pounds  a  year,  so  it  is  not  absolutely  impossible 
but  the  affair  may  be  arranged.  He  can  hardly 
do  better ;  the  Lady  is  exquisitely  pretty  and 
every  body  commends  her.  I  do  not  know 
how  I  have  been  drawn  on  to  write  all  this 
Tittle  Tattle  to  your  Grace ;  I  fancy  because 
Lady  E.  S.  is  Lady  Gower's  sister,  and  Sr.  H.  F. 
the  Duke's  companion.  In  that  point  of  view 
I  hope  your  Grace  will  excuse  it. 

We  met  the  Pretender  in  the  Publick  walk 
with  his  Princess.  She  is  very  pretty  and  of  a 
fme  character.  He  had  the  King  of  Prussia's 
Minister  at  the  Court  of  Turin  with  him.  This 
gentleman  was  of  our  acquaintance,  and  had 
whispered  to  the  Count  Albany  who  we  were. 
He  look'd  most  earnestly  at  the  Duke,  and  on 
our  Bowing  pulled  of  his  hat  and  bowed  very 
low,   smiling  and   keeping  his  eyes  fixed  upon 


416     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

the  Duke  in  a  most  remarkable  manner.  We 
met  him  again  yesterday,  and  nearly  the  same 
thing  happened.  I  once  was  affraid  he  would 
have  spoke  to  the  Duke,  but  he  did  not.  If 
he  had,  the  Duke  would  not  have  been  em- 
barrassed, and  would  have  talked  to  him 
respectfully,  but  as  the  Count  Albany. 

Our  stay  here  will  not  be  above  eight  days 
longer,  when  we  shall  set  out  for  Milan,  and 
then  for  Turin,  but  the  Duke  seems  undeter- 
mined whether  or  not  he  will  go  to  Genoa.  I 
shall  have  the  Honour  of  writing  this  as  soon 
as  the  thing  is  fixed.  I  have  often  expressed  my 
earnest  wishes  that  your  Grace  may  meet  the 
Duke  at  Paris.  Many  and  strong  Reasons  have 
I  for  wishing  this.  As  soon  as  we  arrive  at 
that  city  I  shall  send  to  Sr.  John  Lambert's  in 
expectation  of  hearing  that  you  are  arrived  or 
coming  soon ;  at  least  I  shall  Receive  your 
orders  in  writing.     I  have  the  honour  of  being 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and  Faithful  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

This  day  his  Grace  and  I  will  be  presented 
by  Sr.  Horace  Mann  to  the  Grand  Duke  and 
Dutchess.  He  is  the  only  one  of  the  Austrian 
family  who  the  Duke  is  not  already  known  to. 

This  letter  was  enclosed  and  sealed  when  the 
Duke  came  into  my  room  with  a  letter  which 
he  has  just  wrote  to  your  Grace  and  read  it  to 
me.  I  have  therefore  thought  proper  to  break 
open  this  that  I  may  Inform  you  that  the  Duke 
saw  the  first  acc'ts  of  what  passed  in  the  H.  of 
Peers  about  the  Cause  *  in  the  News  Papers  while 
he  was   at  Naples.     He  had  never  heard  any 

*  The  Douglas  Cause. 


DR.    :\IOORE  417 

hint  of  any  such  thing  going  on  till  then.  Sr. 
Wm.  II.*  asked  at  a  Table  what  it  meant.  The 
Duke  blush'd,  was  embarrassed,  and  then  owned 
he  knew  nothing  of  the  matter.  lie  afterwards 
complained  much  that  he  was  not  informed  of 
these  things. 

At  Rome  a  paper  came  from  jNIr.  Davidson 
to  sign.  He  swore  he  would  not  sign  it,  nor 
would  give  no  powers  of  any  kind  to  com- 
mence any  Plea  till  he  knew  more  about  it.  I 
could  not  prevail  upon  him  at  Rome  to  change 
this  Resolution,  but  while  in  the  chaise  in 
our  way  hither  I  represented  to  him  that  his 
Tutors  had  not  Consulted  him  merely  because 
it  was  not  possible  that  he  could  judge  with 
accuracy  in  a  matter  w'h  he  could  not  possibly 
understand,  and  therefore  they  did  not  chuse 
to  give  him  unnecessary  trouble ;  that  they 
could  have  no  view  but  a  conciencious  dis- 
charge of  Duty  in  this  new  Step,  as  he  was  to 
Reap  the  benefit  and  they  were  only  to  have 
plague  and  Trouble ;  that  it  appeared  to  me  that 
this  was  only  keeping  a  Cause  open  which  he 
might  pursue  afterwards  if  he  pleased  rather 
than  actually  beginning  one ;  that  every  ob- 
jection which  he  could  think  of  against  pro- 
ceeding must  have  been  deliberated  upon  by 
The  Tutors  before  they  decided,  and  not  to 
sign  the  Paper  was  shewing  a  diffidence  in  their 
judgement  which  they  did  not  deserve,  and 
would  not  forget,  &c.,  &c.  He  gave  little 
answer  to  all  this,  but  yesterday  he  signed  the 
paper  and  this  moment  read  me  the  letter  to 
your  Grace,  which  surprised  me  so  much  that 
I  opened  my  letter  to  give  you  this  long  detail. 

*  Sir  William  Hamilton,  our  envoy  at  Naples.  He  married 
Emma  Hart  fifteen  years  later. 


418     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

For  I  will  frankly  own  that  I  thought  it  very 
probable,  after  some  things  which  have  happened 
of  late,  that  the  Duke's  aversion  to  signing 
might  have  been  imputed  to  the  suggestion  of 
others.  As  far  as  I  know  all  proceed  from  an 
Idea  of  his  own.  I  never  was  more  Surprized 
than  at  some  parts  of  the  letter  to  your  Grace. 
When  you  see  the  Duke,  which  I  pray  Heaven 
may  be  soon,  you  will  perceive  the  force  and 
Truth  of  many  things  I  have  at  different  times 
hinted  and  which  I  know  you  cannot  credit 
fully  at  present.  My  business  is  to  state  things 
as  they  are,  in  the  absolute  certainty  that  you 
will  soon  be  convinced  I  never  misrepresented 
a  single  fact  to  your  Grace. 

The  Duke  must  be  treated  with  infinite 
delicacy.  The  least  appearance  of  neglect  hurts 
him  beyond  expression.  He  is  fond  of  your 
Grace  to  Enthusiasm.  I  am  sure  there  is 
nothing  you  could  not  make  him  do  or  undo. 
This  I  think  infinitely  fortunate  for  him,  and 
for  this  Reason  I  say,  once  more,  I  hope  he 
will  have  the  happiness  to  meet  you  at  Paris. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Florence,  Mmj  24«A,   1776. 

I  received  a  letter,  my  Dear  Duchess,  the 
other  Post  from  Mr.  Davidson  acquainting  me 
of  Baron  Mure's  Death,  and  desiring  me  to  sign 
a  Paper  by  which  I  give  full  Power  to  my 
Guardians  to  give  as  much  money  as  they  chuse 
to  Lawyers  about  a  Cause  that  I  know  nothing 
about.  Mr.  Davidson  tells  me  in  his  letter 
that  I  must  sign  the  Paper  as  soon  as  possible, 
that  my   Guardians   may   be  able  to   do   what 


DUKE    OF    HAMILTON  419 

they  please  for  the  good  of  the  Cause.  What 
tlie  Cause  is,  I  am  totally  ignorant  of,  excepting 
what  I  read  in  the  News-paper  about  it,  and  I 
am  still  more  ignorant  of  what  they  are  going 
to  do,  which  is  saying  a  great  deal ;  but  as  I 
suppose  you  know  a  little  more  of  the  Cause 
than  I  do,  and  approve  of  my  beginning  a  new 
Law  suit  by  never  writing  me  a  word  about 
the  matter,  I  have  signed  the  Paper,  mucli 
against  my  inclination.  I  think  Law  suits  at 
all  times  are  very  bad  things,  but  particularly 
as  I  am  now  almost  of  age  and  shall  be  in  want 
of  all  the  money  I  have  at  my  first  setting  out. 

I  am  not  avaritious.  Was  I  helping  the  Poor, 
releiving  the  distressed,  I  should  not  grudge  the 
money  that  was  given  away — on  the  contrary, 
I  should  receive  pleasure — ^but  to  hurt  myself 
and  enrich  a  set  of  low,  mercenary  Wretches, 
Lawyers,  whom  I  detest,  and  with  reason,  I 
think  is  too  bad.  Had  you  but  wrote  me  a 
letter,  a  word,  a  hint  that  you  approved  of  what 
my  Guardians  are  now  doing,  I  should  be  per- 
fectly at  my  ease.  That  not  being  the  case, 
I  own  I  am  not  at  all  at  my  ease.  The  idea  of 
being  distressed  in  my  circumstances  at  my 
entrance  into  the  World  is  very  unpleasant. 
When  once  the  Lawyers  get  a  cause  into  their 
hands,  the  Devil  himself,  tho'  at  the  head  of 
the  Band,  does  not  know  when  they  will  carry 
it,  tho'  he  has  a  good  guess  it  will  come  to  him 
as  their  Chief.  I  had  rather  keep  what  I  have 
than  risk  all  for  the  chance  of  more.  Je  trouve 
que  le  jeu  ne  vaut  pas  la  chandelle.  I  can  not 
be  at  rest  till  I  am  assured  that  you  know  and 
approve  of  what  my  Guardians  have  under- 
taken. I  am  heartily  tired  of  travelling,  of 
having  no  home,  of  being  a  Vagabond  on  the 


420     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Face    of   the    Earth.     I   long   to   see   you,    my 
Friends,  my  country,  which  I  hope  will  be  soon. 

The  weather  is  so  very  cold  that  I  am  obliged 
to  have  a  fire  in  my  room  to  keep  myself  warm. 
I  leave  this  place  in  a  few  days  to  go  to  Milan. 

INIy  love  to  Augusta  and  to  my  unknown 
Sister  Charlotte.  I  beg  my  best  Comp'ts  to 
the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Adieu,  my  Dear  Duchess,  and  believe  me  to 
be  your  Dutifull  and  affectionate  Son, 

Hamilton. 

P.S. — I  hope  Lady  Charlotte  Edwin  is  well. 
Pray  give  my  love  to  her. 


Dr,  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Florence,  June  I,  1776. 

A  few  days  after  our  arrival  at  Florence  I 
had  the  honour  of  writing  to  your  Grace.  The 
Duke  had  fixed  upon  the  30th  of  last  month  for 
the  day  of  our  departure,  when  he  received  a 
letter  from  Sr.  H.  Featherston  informing  him 
that  he  intended  to  be  at  Florence  this  day  on 
his  way  to  England.  This  resolution  of  Sr. 
Harry's  was  unexpected,  for  when  the  Duke 
left  Rome  his  scheme  was  to  go  to  Venice  by 
Loretto ;  however,  this  decided  his  Grace  to 
Remain  here  till  his  Friend's  arrival,  who  I 
suppose  will  accompany  us  all  the  way  to  Paris. 

Tho'  the  Duke's  mind  is  preoccupied  this 
does  not  make  him  blind  to  the  Countess  of 
Albany's  charms,  and  if  there  was  a  Possibility 
of  his  forming  an  intimacy  with  her  without 
making  an  acquaintance  with  her  husband,  I 
imagine  he  would  be  glad  of  such  an  opportunity. 


DR.    MOORE  421 

I  have  not  ommitted  to  hint  the  Impropriety 
of  such  an  Intimacy,  and  if  it  could  be  supposed 
Possible  that  it  might  be  carried  a  certain 
length,  I  have  represented  with  equal  Zeal  and 
Loyalty  how  very  Ungrateful  it  would  be  to  his 
Majesty  to  run  the  Risk  of  begeting  Pretenders 
to  his  Crown,  at  the  very  time  when  he  was 
fixing  Honours  upon  your  Grace  and  the  Duke's 
family.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  put  my  Zeal 
on  this  occasion  in  a  proper  point  of  view  to 
their  Majesties,  that  in  case  the  Stewart  Line 
should  be  continued  by  the  Duke's  means,  I 
may  not  incur  their  dissaprobation,  or  which 
might  be  attended  with  more  violent  eonse- 
quencies,  that  I  as  well  as  his  Grace  may  not 
be  exposed  to  the  indignation  of  Mr.  Wilks  and 
the  Opposition  Whigs  for  the  reanimation  of 
the  Cruel,  Tyranical,  Bloody,  Papistical  Race 
of  Stewart  when  it  seemed  to  be  expiring. 

Ten  days  was  sufficient  to  see  over  and  over 
again  all  that  is  curious  here,  and  the  Duke 
was  sufficiently  tired  of  the  place  when  Sr. 
Harry's  letter  determined  him  to  postpone  his 
departure,  which  I  hope  will  not  be  for  many 
days.  Of  this  I  shall  inform  your  Grace  after- 
wards, in  the  mean  time  I  am  with  the  highest 
Respect, 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  and  most 
humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Milan,  June  19,  1776. 

The  Duke  left  Florence  on  the  14th.  At 
Bologna  he  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  with 
Sr.  William  Hamilton  and  his  Ladv,   who  are 


422     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

now  Returning  to  England.  We  stayed  there 
two  nights,  and  then  set  out  for  this  place  by 
Parma  and  Placentia.  Sr.  W'm  and  Lady 
Hamilton  arrived  here  two  days  after  his  Grace. 
The  Duke  has  not  thought  proper  to  be  pre- 
sented at  this  Court,  as  he  is  impatient  to  get 
to  Paris,  from  whence  I  hope  to  have  the  Honour 
of  addressing  a  letter  to  your  Grace  very  soon, 
and  where  I  hope  the  Duke  will  have  the  Satis- 
faction of  Receiving  agreeable  acc'ts  of  your 
Grace  and  his  other  friends  in  Britain.  I  have 
often  mentioned  how  very  great  pleasure  your 
letters  afforded  him,  and  have  Regreted  that 
you  could  not  give  him  that  pleasure  oftener. 
Too  long  a  deprivation  of  it  never  fails  to  make 
him  uneasy  and  Low  Spirited.  The  esteem  and 
sincere  affection  he  bears  for  Your  Grace  I  have 
always  Remarked  as  one  of  the  Strongest  as 
well  as  most  Amiable  Features  in  the  Duke's 
character.  The  Society  of  a  Son  possess'd  of 
such  Sentiments  cannot  fail  to  make  a  great 
addition  to  your  Happiness.  This  fresh  source 
of  enjoyment  I  hope  you  will  possess  in  a  very 
short  time.  We  leave  Milan  this  night  on  our 
way  to  Turin,  for  the  Duke  declines  returning 
to  Vienna.  I  have  the  honour  to  be  with  the 
greatest  Respect 

Your  Grace's  most  obed't  &  most 
humble  Serv't, 

J.  Moore. 


Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  June  30th,  1776. 

After  the  repeated  assurances   I  have  given 
to  your  Grace  that  we  should  not  Return  bv 


DR.    MOORE  423 

Geneva,  It  is  not  without  uneasiness  that  I 
date  a  letter  from  this  place.  When  we  set 
out  from  Rome  the  Duke  agreed  that  we  should 
not  Return  by  Geneva ;  he  continued  in  the 
same  Resolution  till  we  came  to  Milan,  and 
there  all  of  a  sudden  he  changed  his  mind  and 
told  me  that  he  wished  mightily  to  go  by  this 
place,  but  that  he  would  make  a  very  short 
stay.  I  endeavoured  with  much  earnestness  to 
turn  him  from  this.  I  engaged  Sr.  Wm.  and 
Lady  Hamilton  to  use  their  Influence  to  retain 
him  ten  or  twelve  days  at  Milan ;  all  would  not 
do.  We  left  Milan  without  appearing  at  court, 
tho'  the  arch  Duke  and  Dutchess,  who  we  had 
known  at  Vienna,  discovered  the  Duke,  while 
he  sate  in  his  Frock  in  the  Pit  at  the  Play 
House,  and  saluted  him  in  the  most  obliging 
manner.  After  this  I  was  more  earnest  that  the 
Duke  should  go  at  least  once  to  their  court, 
because  I  knew  his  omitting  this  would  be  con- 
sidered as  neglect.  I  did  not  prevail ;  all  I  could 
Do  was  to  send  the  best  apology  I  could  Invent 
by  Sr.  Wm.  Hamilton.  In  like  manner  at 
Turin  we  were  press'd  much  by  several  people 
of  that  court  (who  w-e  had  known  in  Germany 
and  in  Italy)  to  be  presented  there ;  this  is  what 
few  strangers  neglect,  and  none  of  the  Duke's 
distinction.  All  Importunitys  of  this  kind,  how- 
ever, were  ineffectual,  and  only  put  him  in  bad 
humour.  Tho  nobody  I  ever  saw  makes  a  more 
elegant  appearance  than  he  does  at  a  Polite 
circle,  yet  it  is  certain  that  he  has  a  Rooted 
aversion  to  all  places  of  ceremony,  and  would 
never  choose  to  be  in  any  Society  but  that  of 
Familiar  acquaintenecs  nor  in  any  dress  but  a 
Frock.  After  three  days'  stay  at  Turin  we  left 
that  place,  passed  Mount  Ccnis  (whose  terrours 


424     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

have  been  much  exaggerated  by  Travellers) 
without  any  accident,  and  within  five  days 
arrived  here. 

The  Duke  speaks  of  remaining  here  eight  or 
ten  days  and  then  setting  out  for  Paris,  and 
probably  he  intends  what  he  says,  yet  I  am  by 
no  means  certain  that  he  may  not  be  conduced 
to  remain  much  longer.  He  Lives  at  present 
at  the  House  of  Mr.  Thomas,  the  Gentleman 
to  Avhom  he  lent  the  four  hundred  pounds  at 
Rome,  as  I  mentioned  in  a  letter  from  Italy. 
This  Gentleman  with  his  Lady  have  Returned 
to  their  usual  Residence  within  a  mile  of 
Geneva. 

I  beg  your  Grace  will  immediately  write  what 
your  Inclinations  are  with  Regard  to  the  Duke. 
He  himself  seems  at  present  to  Incline  to  Return 
to  England  this  autumn  or  the  beginning  of 
winter.  I  imagined  this  had  also  been  your 
Grace's  Intention,  and  therefor  have  endea- 
voured to  fortify  him  in  that  Resolution.  One 
Reason  which  perhaps  more  than  any  other 
makes  this  desireable  is  the  Duke's  sensibility 
to  Female  attractions,  and  his  aptitude  to  form 
attachments ;  this  has  been  the  source  of  Infinite 
uneasiness  to  me  and  the  cause  of  all  the  dis- 
agreements w^  ever  happened  between  us.  This 
consideration  makes  it  desireable  that  he  were 
in  that  country  where  alone  he  can  form  a  proper 
attachment — and  where  his  Inclinations  may 
be  Influenced  by  your  Grace — for  I  am  convinced 
that  the  most  fortunate  thing  which  can  happen 
to  the  Duke  will  be  his  Union  with  an  agreeable 
woman  of  Good  sense  and  firmness  of  character, 
who  can  at  once  engage  his  affection  and  esteem. 
If,  however,  your  Grace  has  Reasons  for  think- 
ing  it   will   be   best   that    he    should    Remain 


DR.    MOORE  425 

another  winter  abroad,  there  is  no  question 
that  Vienna  is  the  properest  place.  In  every 
Respect  it  is  preferrable  to  all  the  other  Courts 
we  have  seen,  and  the  only  Reason  I  know  for 
hastening  the  Duke's  Return  to  England  is  the 
danger  I  have  mentioned.  If  your  Grace  thinks 
me  worthy  of  any  share  of  your  confidence,  you 
will  by  the  first  Post  let  me  know  what  you 
determine,  and  be  assured  that  I  will  with 
earnestness  do  all  in  my  power  to  have  your 
inclination  followed. 

Please  direct  under  cover  to  Sr.  Jo.  Lambert 
at  Paris,  with  orders  to  further  the  letter  with- 
out delay  to  me  at  Geneva,  in  case  we  have 
not  arrived  at  Paris,  which  is  a  possible  case. 
If  your  Grace  has  anything  to  say  in  particular 
to  me,  direct  to  me.  If  not  address  to  the  Duke 
— and  In  case  you  incline  for  his  Remaining 
abroad  and  going  to  Vienna,  write  with  earnest- 
ness. I  wish  your  Grace  would  also  dissuade 
the  Duke  from  engaging  his  credit  or  Lending 
large  sums  of  money  where  I  Refuse  to  sign 
the  Draughts.  With  Regard  to  the  Duke's 
opinions  and  sentiments  in  General,  with  Regard 
to  his  conduct  where  Passion  or  accidental 
Humour  do  not  Interfere,  I  have  all  the  In- 
fluence with  the  Duke  w'*  I  can  desire ;  but  in 
such  matters  as  he  thinks  Indifferent  or  which 
Regard  himself  only — under  this  last  head  he 
comprehends  his  Expences  and  his  going  to 
particular  places,  and  the  length  of  his  stay  at 
any  place,  and  sometimes  also  the  Comp^  he 
keeps — with  Regard  to  all  these  I  have  much 
less  than  your  Grace  could  desire ;  yet  when 
he  perceives  that  I  am  strongly  against  any- 
thing, tho'  I  have  not  power  always  to  turn 
him  from  it,  yet  he  does  not  proceed  with  such 

VOL.  n.  7 


42G     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

alacrity  in  it  as  he  would  do  otherwise — and 
tho'  he  will  not  give  me  the  satisfaction  to  say 
he  will  yield  a  Contested  point  in  consequence 
of  my  perswasions,  yet  he  sometimes  drops  it 
of  himself  when  he  sees  me  very  bent  against  it. 

Of  this  there  was  a  Remarkable  and  very 
Important  Instance  at  Florence,  the  particulars 
of  which  I  shall  one  day  give  to  your  Grace. 
1  cannot  express  the  Solicitude  I  felt  on  that 
occasion  nor  the  pleasure  I  had  when  I  pre- 
vailed to  leave  that  place.  I  hope  we  shall  be 
at  Paris  before  an  answer  can  come  to  this 
letter.  If  your  Grace  shall  determine  that  we 
should  go  to  Vienna  or  Remain  in  any  other 
place  on  the  Continent  during  the  next  winter, 
I  beg  you  will  let  me  know  how  long  my  son 
has  leave  to  be  absent  from  his  Reg*.  If  till 
the  next  spring  I  would  incline  to  send  him 
from  Paris  to  pass  the  winter  with  his  Mother 
at  Glasgow,  from  whence  he  may  set  out  for 
Minorca  when  his  leave  of  absence  has  expired. 

The  Reasons  I  had  for  being  solicitous  that 
your  Grace  might  meet  the  Duke  at  Paris — I 
cannot  yet  explain,  nor  would  any  explanation 
on  that  head  be  of  any  service.  I  have  Reason 
now  to  hope  the  good  I  expected  from  that  may 
be  supplied,  or  perhaps  not  requisite.  Your 
Grace  will  have  the  goodness  to  forgive  the 
long  details  I  sometimes  Run  into,  in  considera- 
tion of  their  proceeding  from  an  earnest  desire 
of  giving  satisfaction  to  you  and  serving  the 
Duke.  May  I  hope  that  you  will  present  my 
very  Respectful  Compliments  to  the  Duke  of 
Argyll  and  to  Lady  Augusta,  and  believe  me  to 
be  with  great  truth 

Your  Grace's  ever  faithful  and  obed*  Serv*, 

J.  Moore. 


DR.    MOORE  427 

Dr.  Moore  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Geneva,  July  Wth,  1776. 

It  has  given  me  great  uneasiness  to  find  my- 
self obliged  to  Contradict  in  one  letter  what  I 
have  said  in  the  former.  I  am  truely  ashamed 
of  the  Uncertainty  and  mutability  of  our  Plans, 
yet  if  I  write  to  your  Grace  at  all  I  must  write 
what  are  the  Resolutions  at  the  time,  and  if 
these  are  altered  before  I  have  the  honour  of 
writing  to  you  again — I  hope  your  Grace  will 
do  me  the  justice  to  believe  that  this  has  not 
happened  from  any  Intention  of  mine  to  deceive, 
but  from  my  not  being  able  to  foresee  nor 
controul  the  variation  of  opinion  which  takes 
place.  Before  we  came  to  Milan  I  thought  I 
had  fully  perswaded  the  Duke  not  to  toutch  at 
Geneva,  but  to  turn  off  from  Chambery  to 
Lyons  and  to  go  on  directly  to  Paris.  At  Milan 
he  formed  the  Resolution  to  go  by  Geneva,  but 
said  he  would  stay  only  a  few  days.  Of  this  I 
was  so  fully  perswaded  that  I  wrote  to  all  my 
friends  in  Britain  to  address  their  letters  to 
Paris,  and  now  by  this  Post  I  shall  write  to 
Paris  to  desire  all  letters  that  may  be  there  at 
Present  to  be  furthered  to  Geneva,  but  not  to 
send  those  which  may  come  after  the  22nd  of 
this  month,  because  I  believe,  just  now,  that  we 
shall  set  out  about  that  time  for  Paris,  where  I 
shall  expect  with  Impatience  to  be  advised  of 
your  Grace's  Pleasure.  The  Duke's  own  Idea 
was  to  Remain  some  months  at  Paris  and  then 
Return  to  England  about  the  begining  of  winter, 
but  by  a  hint  in  a  letter  he  Received  at  Turin 
you  seem  to  have  a  wish  that  he  should  pass 
the  winter  at  Vienna  (the  latest  letter  he  has 


428     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

had).  If  this  is  still  your  desire  I  hope  you  will 
write  with  force  upon  that  head,  and  in  that 
case  our  stay  in  Paris  ought  not  to  be  long.  A 
long  stay  at  Paris  would  not  be  good  for  him 
on  several  acc'^  Vienna  is  without  comparison 
the  best  place  on  the  Continent,  at  least  preferr- 
able  to  any  we  are  acquainted  with.  Geneva 
has  become  good  for  nothing.  There  are  by 
much  too  many  English  Boys  here. 

If  the  Duke  is  to  Remain  another  Winter  on 
the  Continent,  I  humbly  imagine  he  ought  to 
Pass  it  at  some  Capital  where  his  Usual  Company 
may  be  People  of  High  Rank  or  of  Eminent 
character,  Paris,  The  Hague,  or  Vienna.  The 
Dangers  of  the  first  are  the  number  of  English 
always  there,  who  might  intirely  engross  the 
Duke  and  Lead  him  Intirely  from  the  best 
Company  w^  he  might  if  he  pleased  find  there. 
Undoubtedly  if  he  is  to  spend  his  time  in  English 
Comp^  he  had  best  be  at  London,  where  he  may 
have  a  better  choice  with  the  advantage  of  the 
Duke  of  Argyll's  and  your  Grace's  direction. 
The  Hague  I  have  heard  commended,  but  know 
nothing  by  experience.  Vienna  I  know ;  there 
the  manners  of  the  court  are  more  correct  than 
in  any  other  we  have  seen.  The  Duke  is  already 
known  to  the  People  of  the  Highest  Rank  and 
merit,  with  whom  he  may  live  on  the  most 
easie  footing — and  if  he  does  not  shun  company 
altogether  he  must  be  with  his  Superiours,  or 
such  as  consider  themselves  as  nearly  his  equals 
— a  Point  of  very  Great  Importance  for  the 
Duke.  I  have  often  hinted  this  to  your  Grace. 
I  mention  it  now  again,  because  my  own  opinion 
is  that  one  of  the  greatest  dangers  the  Duke 
Runs,  is  his  choosing  a  too  obsequious  Set  of 
Companions.     This  has  given  me  great  concern. 


DR.    MOORE  429 

because  it  may  give  a  disagreeable  twist  to  a 
character  naturaly  Amiable.  The  Duke  is  fitted 
for  the  best  Company  in  every  Sence  of  the 
word — among  such  he  is  Polite,  Modest,  and 
Judicious.  But  with  the  other  class  his  be- 
haviour may  be  construed  as  self-sufficient, 
arrogant,  and  capricious.  When  he  Respects 
his  Company  he  himself  is  always  Respectable. 
I  am  sure  your  Grace  will  forgive  the  Liberties 
I  sometimes  take  with  the  Duke  in  my  letters 
to  you,  and  be  convinced  that  no  body  has  his 
Interest  and  Reputation  more  truely  at  heart 
than 
Your  Grace's  ever  faithful  and  obed*  Serv\ 

J.  Moore. 

If  you  have  determined  that  we  Remain 
another  winter  on  the  continent,  I  shall  send 
my  son  from  Paris  to  Scotland,  where  he  may 
Remain  till  he  is  ordered  to  join  his  Reg^ 
And  may  I  hope  that  your  Grace  will  write  a 
few  lines  to  Mrs.  Moore  Informing  her  of  your 
desire  that  our  Return  be  postponed  ? 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Arran,  March  I5th,  1778. 

My  dearest  Duchess, 

There  is  a  report  here,  that  five  hundred 
men  are  to  be  taken  from  each  new  regiment 
now  raising,  to  be  sent  immediately  to  America. 
I  should  be  sorry  for  it,  as  it  would  spoil  the 
new  levied  regiment  and  be  of  no  use  to  the 
service.  If  you  know  anything  of  this  affair, 
I  wish  you  would  write  to  me  directly,  as  it  is 
of  the  greatest  consequence  to  me.  My  JMajor 
leaves  me  to-morrow  to  go  to  Hamilton  upon 


430     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

business.  I  now  am  here  without  any  com- 
pany, so  you  may  conceive  a  letter  would  be  a 
great  pleasure.  I  make  a  Tour  through  the 
Island  to-morrow.  Adieu,  my  dearest  Duchess. 
Your  affectionate  son, 

Hamilton. 
My  love  to  all  the  family. 

(Addressed)         Her  Grace 

The  Duchess  of  Argyll, 
London. 

Her  Grace  1  Letter — 86^. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother 

Arran,  March  IQth,   1778. 

My  dearest  Duchess, 

Since  my  last  letter  to  you  I  have  heard 
from  my  Major,  who  informs  me  that  five  hundred 
men  are  to  be  taken  from  each  new  levy.  I 
enclose  his  letter  to  you,  as  I  would  have  you 
know  all  the  reasons  for  my  going  or  staying. 
I  fancy  I  shall  stay  with  you  a  few  months 
longer.  I  am  in  the  greatest  anxiety  about 
raising  the  men.  You  will  see  by  the  Major's 
letter,  that  I  cannot  possibly  leave  Arran,  and 
from  the  disposition  of  the  People  I  meet  with 
many  difficulties,  but  you  may  be  sure  I  shall 
do  all  that  I  can  to  succeed.  If  the  People  do 
not  behave  better  before  next  monday,  I  intend 
to  use  a  little  force.  I  am  just  setting  out  on 
another  expedition,  so  Adieu,  and  believe  me  to 
be,  my  dearest  Duchess, 

Your  most  affectionate  son, 

Hamilton. 

Love  to  all  the  Family.     How  is  the  Duke  ? 


DUKE    OF    IIA:\IILT0N  431 

The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  his  Mother. 

Arran,  Awjivit  21  til,   1779. 

My  dearest  Duchess, 

I  am  very  sorry  to  hear  by  your  letter 
that  you  have  not  been  well.  Betty  &  I  will 
come  to  see  you  at  Inverary  as  soon  as  you 
arrive,  whieh  I  faney  will  not  be  for  some  days 
yet,  as  Lady  Derby  in  her  letter  mentions 
stopping  at  one  or  two  plaees  in  your  way  to 
Scotland.  I  hope  you  will  have  as  fine  weather 
for  your  journey,  as  I  have  had  for  my  shooting. 
I  congratulate  you  on  Lady  Derby's  safe  return 
to  this  country,  &  I  sincerely  hope  every  thing 
may  be  settled  for  her  &  your  happy ness.  I 
saw  a  letter  from  you  to  M'  Stuart  wherein 
you  leave  every  thing  to  his  management  by 
the  Duke  of  Argyll's  desire.  Her  affairs  can 
not  be  in  better  hands.  I  will  not  trouble  you 
any  longer,  but  believe  me  to  be 

Your  most  affectionate  son, 

Hamilton  &  Brandon. 

Betty  sends  her  love. 

(Addressed)         Her  Grace 

The  Duchess  of  Argyll 
Hamilton 

Edin. 

To  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Arran,  Scpf  5,   1782. 

Dear  Madam, 

We  have  just  Heard  of  Your  Arrival  At 
Inverary  Where  We  intend  Ourselves  the  Plea- 
sure of  Waiting  upon  You  (fe  The  Duke  of  Argyll 


432     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

on  The  11th  or  12th,  if  it  Will  be  Convenient 
to  Your  Grace  to  receive  us  at  that  Time.  As 
We  propose  Going  by  Sea  &  Must  Wait  for 
Your  Grace's  answer,  Winds  &  Weather,  &c., 
I  Hope  You  W^ill  Not  Expect  us  to  be  quite 
punctual.  I  beg  My  Love  to  Lady  Augusta. 
The  Duke  desires  His  to  Your  Grace,  &  I  am, 
Dear  Madam, 

Yours  Affec^, 

E.  Hamilton. 

Note. — The  formal  mode  of  addressing  near 
relatives  contrasts  with  the  more  easy  manners 
of  to-day. 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton  to  the  Duchess  of  Argyll. 

Dear  Duchess, 

A  thousand  thanks  for  having  been  so 
obliging  as  to  recollect  me  for  the  ball  this 
evening.  Will  your  Grace  be  kind  enough  in 
addition  to  a  ticket  for  the  Prince  Czartoryski 
and  myself  to  send  two  others,  one  for  Lord 
Mansfield  &  the  other  for  the  Hon""*^  Col. 
Stanhope  ?  With  regard  I  have  the  honor  to 
be.  Dear  Duchess, 

Your  Grace's  most  obedient  &  devoted 

Hamilton  &  Brandon. 

Tuesdaif. 

P.S. — Mr.  Fox,  who  is  dining  here,  requests 
your  Grace  to  recollect  his  ticket. 


p.   (.•!:-] 


JOHN,     I  II    III     IllKi;    (II      AIM. VI, I, 


\ 


NpaTHAMPTOlM,  ,V1ASS. 


CORRESPONDENCE    BETWEEN   VARIOUS 

MEMBERS    OF    THE    DUKE    OF 

ARGYLL'S  FAMILY  AND  HIGH 

OFFICERS    OF   STATE 

1762-1831 

John  5th  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Mrs.  Grant  of  Laggan  says  that  he  was  a  "  model 
of  manly  grace.  We  hear  so  little  about  him ; 
he  is  so  quickly  passed  over  to  make  room  for 
dashers  and  boasters  and  fighters  and  talkers. 
He  does  not  wish  to  be  talked  of.  Seek  for  a 
great  man's  true  and  solid  praise  at  his  own 
door,  among  his  tenants  and  neighbours,  that 
is  to  say  that  he  lives  at  home  among  them. 
Every  mouth  here  will  tell  you  of  some  of  those 
*  quiet  waters,  soft  and  slow,'  that  steal  silently 
on,  carrying  bounty  and  beneficence  into  all 
corners  of  obscurity.  This  Duke's  worth  and 
wisdom  improves  and  blesses  the  whole  country. 
Yet  I  hope  that  M'hen  this  modest  and  amiable 
benefactor  of  mankind  sleeps  with  his  fathers, 
and  wlien  the  tenants  have  ceased  to  say  '  He 
is  the  best  of  countrymen,'  some  voice  may 
sav  '  Such  must  not  sleep  in  darkness  and  in 
death.'  " 

Of  him  and  of  his  father  the  papers  here 
given  are  interesting  as  illustrating  the  life  of 
a  man  who  fought  at  Dettingen  and  Culloden, 
and  lived  till  1805,  and  was  well  remembered 
by  men  I  have  spoken  with  on  their  recollections 

433 


434     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  him.      He  built  Rosneath  House,    near   the 
site  of  the  old  castle  destroyed  by  fire. 

To  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  dear  Lord, 

I  do  not  realy  well  know  how  to  appoli- 
gize  to  your  Grace  for  the  Liberty  I  am  about 
to  take,  but  I  must  trust  to  your  Goodness  for 
my  forgiveness  if  I  do  wrong,  but  my  friend 
the  Chevalier  Reburguil,  one  of  Monsieur's  * 
suite,  has  requested  me  as  the  greatest  favour 
that  I  would  sound  your  Grace  whether  it  would 
be  agreeable  to  you  to  let  him  have  the  use  of 
your  Apartments  in  Holy  Rood  House.  If  I 
found  you  had  no  objection  to  let  him  have 
them,  I  am  to  say  so,  and  Monsieur  would  then 
write  to  your  Grace  and  ask  them  of  you  ;  on 
the  contrary,  should  you  not  wish  to  let  him 
have  them,  you  have  only  to  say  so  to  me,  and 
you  will  have  no  further  trouble  about  them. 
When  I  was  last  in  Edinburgh  I  bespoke  the 
Armed  Chairs,  according  to  your  Grace's  Orders  ; 
he  sent  me  out  one,  but  it  was  not  made  accord- 
ing to  my  wish.  I  then  sent  my  own  Chair,  and 
he  promises  I  shall  have  them  this  week.  I 
think  the  one  first  sent  will  do  very  well  for 
our  old  friend  the  Baily,  and  the  other  two  for 
Inveraray  and  Roseneath.  I  beg  your  Grace 
will  offer  my  Best  Respects  to  Lady  Augusta, 
and  any  other  of  your  Grace's  Family  that  are 
with  you,  and  believe  me,  my  Dear  Lord, 

Most  truely  and  sincerely  yours, 

DUNMORE. 

DuNMOEE  Park, 

September  15th,  1801. 

*  Afterwarcis  Charle9  X.  of  FranP3. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     435 

P.S. — If  your  Grace  is  so  good  as  to  favor 
me  with  an  answer  will  you  have  the  goodness 
to  direct  to  me  at  Hamilton.  Pray  where  shall 
I  send  the  Chairs  to  ?     Adieu. 


From  the  Marquis  of  Lome  (5th  Duke  of  Argyll), 

Bond  Streict,  30  Dec'r,   1762. 

My  Lord, 

As   the   reduction   of   the   Army   is   very 
soon  to  be  settled  I  beg  leave  to  offer  for  your 
Lordship's  consideration  a  circumstance  which 
I   had   the   honour  to   mention   to   you   before, 
and  which  in  the  Multiplicity  of  Business  your 
Lordship  is  engag'd  in,  may  have  escap'd  your 
attention.     I    mean    the    keeping    up    of    some 
independant  Companies  of  Highlanders,   which 
Your    Lordship    seem'd    to    think    w^ould    be    a 
measure    usefull    to    the    Publick,    and    would 
afford  an  opportunity  of  providing  for  some  of 
your    Lordship's    dependants,    particularly    for 
Lieutenant-Colonel     Dugald     Campbell,     whose 
situation  will  soon  be  very  distressful!.     If  the 
Highland  Regiments   which   are  at   present  on 
the     Establishment    are    to    be    continued     in 
America,  where  they  all  are  at  present,  It  will 
be  very  necessary  for  the  quiet  of  the  Highlands, 
and  for  the  suppressing  of  theft  and  disorders, 
that  some  of  these  people  should  be  employ'd  ; 
the  marching  Regiments  not  being  fit  for  per- 
forming that  service  effectually,  of  which  I  had 
experience  while  I  commanded  in  Scotland,  and 
w^hich  I  am  confident  will  be  testified  by  Lord 
George  Beauclerk.     I  beg  to  know  your  Lord- 
ship's  opinion   about   this    matter,    and    should 
be  glad  to  have  the  honour  of  waiting  on  you 


436     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

for  a  few  minutes  if  you  think  my  proposal 
worth  your  attention.  I  am,  My  Lord,  with 
the  highest  respect, 

Your  Lordship's  most  obedient  Servant, 

LORNE. 


From  Lieut, -Col.  J.  Campbell. 

Inveraray,  July  Gth,  1765. 

s% 

It  is  the  Earl  of  Loudoun's  orders  that 
you  immediately  assemble  all  the  men  you  have 
rais'd  for  your  company  at  Inveraray,  which 
is  allotted  them  for  their  Quarters,  for  which 
purpose  you  are  to  send  to  your  officers  and  any 
other  persons  you  may  have  employ'd  in  the 
recruiting  service,  ordering  them  to  send  hither 
the  men  they  have  listed  with  all  possible 
expedition. 

We  are  at  present  very  much  press'd  for  men, 
for  which  reason  we  cannot  be  so  nice  in  regard 
to  the  size,  so  that  if  any  men  should  offer  half 
an  inch  or  an  inch  lower  than  your  instructions 
you  may  list  him. 

I  beg  you  would  write  me  word  by  the  return 
of  the  bearer  what  number  of  men  you  have 
got,  and  as  the  Earl  of  Loudoun  will  be  here 
in  a  day  or  two  it  will  be  necessary  that  neither 
yourself  nor  your  officers  be  farther  distant 
from  Inveraray  than  a  short  day's  journey. 
One  of  j^our  officers,  which  ever  you  think 
proper,  must  be  sent  immediately  to  Inveraray 
in  order  to  take  care  of  the  men  you  send  hither. 
I  beg  there  may  be  no  time  lost  in  sending  this 
officer  and  all  the  men  you  have  got  hither, 
and  if  you  are  not  at  any  great  distance  your 
self   I   should   be  glad   to   see   you   as   soon   as 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     437 

possible,  but  if  your  coming  would  be  of  any 
great  hindrance  to  the  recruiting  service  I 
siiall  not  expect  you.  I  desire,  however,  you 
would  write  me  a  very  particular  account  of 
the  men  you  have  got  and  what  prospect  you 
have  for  the  future. 

I  am,  Sir,  your  most  obed't  Ser't, 

J.  Campbell,  Lt. -Colonel. 


From  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

London,  Jan'y  22rd,  1770. 

Sir, 

I  have  your  letter  of  16th.  I  have 
received  all  the  Papers  mentioned  therein.  I 
find  by  Airds  that  the  Mull  Tenants  will  all 
accept  of  their  Leases  on  my  Terms.  I  have, 
however,  agreed  by  Airds'  persuasion  to  deduct 
six  pounds  sterling  from  Stewart's  Rent,  which 
will  now  stand  at  £100.  I  am  afraid  I  am  so 
far  engaged  about  the  Glendaruel  Parish  that  I 
cannot  retract.  However  I  should  be  much 
obliged  to  Knockbuiy  if  he  would  come  into 
the  Scheme  you  propose.  As  I  have  no  cer- 
tainty of  the  Vacancy  I  have  not  yet  given  in 
the  Recommendation,  tho'  I  think  Glendaruel 
writes  of  it  as  certain.  I  have  drawn  on  Coutts 
for  £250  on  the  other  side,  which  you  will  remit 
to  me  by  the  first  opportunity.     I  am,  Sir, 

Your  sincere  friend  and  humble  Servant, 

LORNE. 

Note. — The  above  shows  the  leasehold  system 
as  being  introduced  in  Mull,  where  the  want  of 
definite  contracts  had  induced  troubles. 


438     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

From  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 
Sir, 

I  received  your  letter  of  the  3rd  instant 
inclosing  a  draft  at  sight  for  £300  from  Sir  W. 
Forbes  to  Harris  &  Co. 

I  have  also  this  day  received  your  letter  of 
the  5th,  giving  me  an  account  of  the  report 
with  regard  to  Lord  Elphinston.  The  East 
India  Cap'  has  been  here  with  me  to-day,  and 
seems  rather  inclined  to  pick  a  German  quarrel. 
I  am  to  have  a  meeting  with  him  to-morrow, 
and  Lord  Rosberry  who  was  present  at  our 
Treaty.  I  shall  soon  give  you  an  account  of 
what  happens.  In  the  mean  time  I  would  not 
have  you  say  a  word  about  it  to  Sir  James  or 
any  other.  I  find  Sir  L.  Dundas  is  at  the 
Bottom  of  it,  endeavouring  to  intimidate  me 
by  means  of  the  Elphinstons  to  come  into 
terms  with  him  in  regard  to  Clackmannan. 

You  will  have  received  my  directions  before 
this  time  to  go  on  with  the  Dunbartonshire 
Votes  in  any  event.  I  approve  of  's  pro- 
posal to  take  a  Vote  in  Dunbartonshire,  and 
that  Lamont  should  have  a  Vote  in  Clack- 
mannanshire, for  which  purpose  I  shall  write  to 
him  this  night.  I  also  approve  of  Ferrier's 
being  the  Voter  in  Dunbartonshire  instead 
of  Clackmannanshire,  and  you  may  put  Neil 
Campbell  or  the  Chamberlain  of  Kantyre  into 
Clackmannan,  but  rather  the  last  if  there  is 
no  mischief  Brewing  in  Argyleshire.  You  will 
acquaint  what  I  have  said  with  regard  to  him  as 
I  have  not  time  to  write  this  post.  I  am 
Your  sincere  friend  &  Serv', 

Argyll. 

London, 

Feb.  nth,  1779. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     439 

The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Mr.  James  Ferrier. 

Inveraray,  4  Nov'r,  1783. 

I  desire  you  will  lend  Provost  Colquhoun  of 
Dunbarton  one  hundred  pounds  sterling  on  my 
account,  and  take  the  best  security  you  can 
get  from  him  for  that  and  the  other  sums  he 
owes  me.  And  whenever  as  mucli  can  be 
recovered  from  him  on  that  security  as  will 
pay  the  debt  of  one  hundred  and  fifteen  pounds 
which  he  owes  yourself,  I  agree  that  you  shall 
receive  it,  as  I  understand  your  advances  to 
him  proceeded  chiefly  from  a  desire  of  serving 
and  supporting  my  interest. 

Argyll. 

To  Mr.  James  Ferrier. 

The  Marquis  of  Lome  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Dear  Father, 

You  have  probably  before  this  time 
heard  of  the  Failure  of  Ross  and  Ogilvie  ; 
yesterday  Lord  Banbury  called  upon  me  to 
inform  me  that  it  was  necessary  immediately  to 
appoint  some  Agent  to  carry  on  the  business  of 
the  Regt.  and  that  he  wished  to  consult  me  as 
I  might  probably  know  if  there  was  any  person 
more  agreable  to  you  than  another.  I  told 
liim  I  believ'd  that  you  had  not  partiality  for 
any  particular  person,  and  that  if  he  had  no 
predilection  for  some  other  person,  I  took  the 
libertv  of  mentioning  Greenwood  as  a  Man  from 
whom  I  had  received  personal  civilities,  and 
whose  only  fault  was  his  having  (perhaps)  too 
much  business.  I  am  glad  to  see  by  the  letter 
I  enclose  that  Ross  had  also  recommended  him 


440     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

to  you,  and  he  is  to  carry  on  the  business  till 
your  wishes  can  be  ascertained. 

Adieu,  my  dear  Father ;  there  is  no  particular 
news,  and  nothing  very  interesting  except  a  very 
long  debate  on  the  Volunteer  Bill.  There  is 
a  decided  Coalition  between  the  Foxites  and 
Grenvillites. 

I  hear  you  have  lost  the  amiable  Mr.  Torrence, 
Chef  de  Cuisine.  Shall  I  send  you  one  fit  to 
comfort  Sr.  W.  Hart's  interiors — a  more  delicious 
Cook? 

Y^^  Aff' ly, 

LORNE. 

I  send  Ferrier  to  London. 

(Endorsed)  L.  Lome,  about  Agent  &  Cook.     No 
date  but  suppos'd  22  March. 


The  Marquis  of  Lome  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Dear  Father, 

I  inclose  a  letter  I  have  received  from 
Graham,  as  I  wish  to  have  your  opinion  before 
I  take  any  steps  in  the  business.  If  you  approve 
the  best  way  will  be  to  transmit  the  letter 
itself  to  Mr.  Dundas  or  the  Secretary  at  War, 
recommending  it  to  their  attention.  I  likewise 
send  you  a  circular  letter  from  the  Duke  of 
Portland,  which  by  some  accident  I  only  received 
the  other  day  ;  tho'  not  very  applicable  to  Argyll- 
shire I  thought  you  might  like  to  see  it,  as  well 
as  an  accompanying  Pamphlet — if  necessary  you 
can  forward  them  to  Grahame. 

I  was  at  Court  yesterday,  or  rather  Saturday  ; 
as  I  had  not  an  opportunity  of  being  presented 
at    a   previous    Levee,    I    kept    at    an    aweful 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     441 

distance ;  however  I  was  known  to  be  there 
and  shall  be  presented  the  first  opportunity. 
I  was  told  (as  a  great  secret)  that  the  last 
Messenger  brought  proposals  from  Bounaparte 
for  us  to  send  two  persons  to  Dunkirk  to  meet 
two  of  their  people  and  conclude  a  separate 
peace,  to  which  we  replied  that  we  were  to 
faithful  to  our  Allies  to  enter  into  any  clandes- 
tine or  separate  negociation.  This  comes  from 
unquestionable  authority,  and  is,  I  really  be- 
lieve at  present,  a  sort  of  secret — therefore  it 
is  not  necessary  to  say  anything  about  it. 

Lady  Ailesbury  has  been  ill,  but  is  quite 
recovered.  Lord  Frederick  went  to  Stafford- 
shire on  Saturday. 

Ever  affectionately  Yours, 

LORNE. 

(Endorsed)  Marquis  of  Lome,  20th  Jan'v,  ans'd 
29th,  1800. 


From  Lord  John  Campbell  (incomplete). 

23  Sept.  1800. 

My  Dear  Father, 

I  was  yesterday  at  the  War  Office  and 
was  told  that  no  Ships  had  been  ordered,  and 
that  some  Officers  who  were  going  down  to 
Portsmouth  to  be  ready  for  the  first  Ships  had 
been  told  they  might  remain  in  London  till 
further  orders. 

I  saw  also  a  letter  from  Portsmouth,  received 
this  morning,  which  says  that  some  troops 
which  had  been  embarked  for  the  Mediteranean 
are  still  laying  at  Spithead ;  in  case  the  Regt. 
should  return  and  I  should  have  it  in  my  power 

VOL.    II.  8 


442     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

to    procure    an    exchange,    will    you   have   any 
objection  to  my  doing  so  ? 

I  dined  on  Saturday  at  Strawberry  Hill  with 
George  and  William  Campbell,  who  returned  a 
few  days  ago  from  America ;  we  found  Lady 
Ailesbury  perfectly  well  and  in  good  Spirits  : 
with  .  .  . 


The  Duke  of  Hamilton*  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Lord, 

If  I  am  induced  to  intrude  upon  your 
Grace  it  is  from  being  anxious  to  co-operate  in 
what  I  am  led  to  conceive  to  be  the  wishes  of 
my  brother  Peers  of  Scotland.  It  has  been 
represented  to  me  as  a  proper  opportunity  for 
us  to  request  that  Scotch  Peers'  eldest  Sons 
should  be  permitted  to  enjoy  the  privilege  of 
representing  in  Parliament  Scotch  Counties  and 
Boroughs  in  common  with  British  ones.  Sol- 
licitous  as  I  am  to  join  in  supporting  the  dignity 
and  consequence  of  our  Country,  I  can  only 
offer  myself  as  an  instrument  in  the  common 
cause  and  unite  to  your  endeavours  my  own  : 
their  tenor  must  prescribe  the  line  of  my 
conduct,  and  point  out  the  form  and  time  of 
communicating  our  object  to  Government ; 
but  before  any  step  is  taken  I  take  the  liberty 
of  thus  confidentially  requesting  your  Grace's 
sentiments  upon  the  business,  that  in  its  pro- 
gress every  defference  may  be  paid  to  them, 
which  will  not  only  give  additional  strength 
and  respectability  to  the  object  in  agitation, 
but  afford  me  an  opportunity  of  testifying  that 

*  Archibald,    9th   Dulve  of   Hamilton   and   Cth   of    Brandon, 
succeeded  Douglas  in  1799. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTP:RS     443 

respect  and  esteem  with  which  I  have  the  honor 
to  remain,  My  Lord, 

Your  Grace's  Most  faithful!  & 
obed*  Servant, 

Hamilton  &  Brandon. 

His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 
&c.  &c. 

Hamilton, 
5th  Jan.  1801. 

From  Lord  Frederick  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of 

Argyll. 

CoMBANK,  Tuesday, 

Feb.  2Mi,   1801. 

I  was  very  happy,  my  dear  Brother,  to  find 
your  Letter  relative  to  a  propos'd  Exchange  in 
your  Regiment  so  peremptory  and  yet  so  kind. 
Because  it  enabled  me  to  send  it  to  my  very 
old  Friend  Robert  Drummond.  You  will  see 
from  the  enclos'd  Scrap  of  a  Letter,  which  you 
may  put  in  the  Fire,  how  very  right  Headed  He 
is,  and  upon  the  whole  how  much  oblig'd. 

The  late  Change  of  Administration  has  griev'd 
and  puzzl'd  me  much.  In  the  long  Political 
Course  of  Life,  which  more  or  less  I  have  always 
been  in,  I  could  always  form  some  probable 
Conjecture  of  the  Motives  which  brought  about 
The  Change.  Upon  the  present  occasion  I 
cannot  hit  upon  any  good  Ground  to  form  an 
Opinion  upon.  The  ostensible  Reasons  which 
appear  in  Speeches  and  News  Papers,  by  no 
means,  I  should  think,  account  for  the  Event. 
The  Bottom  of  the  Bottom  still  remains  to  be 
discovered,  to  use  the  strong  Mode  of  Expression 
formerly  us'd  by  the  late  Lord  Chatham. 

I  shall  be  happy  to  Consult  with  your  Sons 


444     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

and  our  Cousin  John  Campbell  what  is  best 
to  be  done  for  your  Interest  and  Theirs.  If 
there  is  any  Point  you  look  forward  to  for  Them 
or  any  of  your  Friends,  I  think  it  should  be 
mention'd  to  the  Persons  now  in  Power,  who 
both  for  the  King's  sake  and  their  own  must 
think  the  Weight  of  your  Family,  if  properly 
applied,  of  very  material  Consequence. 

I  look  forward  with  eagerness  to  your  Example 
about  Potatoes,  and  shall  do  all  I  can  for  the 
future  to  bear  my  Proportion.  In  the  mean 
Time  I  give  Potatoes  and  Rice  in  great  Quan- 
titys  to  the  very  Poor,  and  sell  both  at  half 
Price  to  Those  who  are  less  so.  By  which 
means,  and  a  Parish  Subscription  going  on  to 
the  same  purpose,  Sundridge  is  perfectly  happy 
and  pleas 'd  with  all  our  Substitutes  for  White 
Bread.  Herrings  have  been  and  are  most 
greedily  sought  after. 

It  gives  Lady  Fred''  and  me  infinite  Pleasure 
to  hear  that  you  are  so  well  and  so  happy  at 
Inveraray.  We  both  join  in  most  affectionate 
Good  Wishes  to  you  and  yours. 

Yours  most  affectionately, 

Fredk.  Campbell. 


The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Inveraray,   March  14^th,  180L 

My  Dearest  Johnny, 

It  is  time  I  should  return  you  my  thanks 
for  the  many  letters  I  have  lately  received  from 
you,  which  were  well  bestowed  considering  the 
constant  anxiety  I  felt  about  your  health.  What 
has  happened  will,  I  am  persuaded,  make  you 
cautious  in  future,  and  if  it  makes  you  reflect 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     445 

upon  the  French  Proverb,  Bon  mariage  payera 
tout,  it  may  have  been  of  use.  We  have  had 
our  share  of  the  fine  weather  of  late,  but  not 
without  some  Uttle  Interhides  of  storm  and 
rain.  All  vegetation,  however,  and  field  oppera- 
tions  are  in  great  forwardness.  As  there  is 
neither  fishing  or  shooting  at  present,  the 
weather  of  the  next  two  months  will  be  of  more 
consequence  to  you,  and  I  hope  will  not  fail  us. 
McGregor  told  me  yesterday  that  Donald  Fer- 
guson saw  in  one  view  no  less  than  39  Roebucks 
and  does.  They  have  been  driven  out  of  the 
woods  in  Glen  Shira  bv  the  woodcutters,  which 
occasions  their  appearance  in  the  open  grounds 
in  such  quantities ;  but  as  it  is  the  Business 
of  all  you  Sportsmen  to  shoot  flying,  some 
allowance  may  be  made  for  the  extent  of  this 
Report. 

I  need  not  tell  you  that  I  wish  you  to  come 
here  as  soon  as  it  can  be  done  with  Propriety 
in  respect  to  your  Senatorial  Capacity,  which 
as  much  as  I  wish  to  see  you  must  by  no  means 
be  neglected.  I  was  very  glad  to  find  that 
you  attended  the  meeting  of  the  Crinan  Canal 
Company,  tho  your  going  there  will  cost  me 
£600.  You  set  a  good  example  to  your  Brother, 
which  upon  other  such  like  occasions  I  hope 
he  will  follow.  I  send  you  a  letter  I  lately 
rcc'd  from  Glasgow,  to  which  I  refer  you,  and 
desire  you  would  give  some  attention  to  the 
Business  in  question,  and  tell  your  Cousin  John 
Campbell  that  I  hope  he  will  do  the  same.  As 
I  have  been  bragging  of  our  weather  in  the 
former  part  of  my  letter,  It  would  not  be  fair 
to  conceal  from  you  that  we  had  last  night  a 
considerable  fall  of  snow  on  the  hills,  and  a 
sprinkling  on  the  downs,  which  before  were  as 


446     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

green  as  at  any  period  of  the  year.  I  am  in 
health  much  as  when  George  left  me,  but  the 
continued  want  of  sleep  and  increase  of  Years 
make  the  wear  and  tear  very  rapid.  My  best 
love  to  George.  One  of  you  must  write  to  me 
in  a  week. 

Most  affectionately  yours, 

Argyll. 

My  best  love  to  Lady  Ailesbury,  Mrs.  Darner, 
and  Louisa.  Compts.  to  Carnelm  and  Lady 
Mary  Coke,  whom  I  hope  you  do  not  neglect. 


The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Inverakay,  March  3lst,  1801. 

My  Dearest  Johnny, 

Your  letters  are  always  welcome,  such 
as  apply  to  me  about  Regimental  Business  less 
so  than  any.  I  cannot  possibly  comply  with 
your  request  about  Hopburne.  I  never  have 
or  will  I  now  overrule  General  Lister's  opinion 
in  such  matters.  I  most  heartily  wish  you 
could  with  propriety  come  away.  How  do  you 
bear  the  long  days  in  the  house  ?  I  hope  you 
attend  closely  since  you  write  me  that  you  are 
perfectly  well ;  it  will  give  you  the  better  pre- 
tensions to  come  away.  I  do  not  doubt  your 
being  tired  of  the  Amusements  of  London,  but 
you  must  not  quite  yet  be  tired  of  the  Business 
of  it.  I  desire  you  would  by  no  means  neglect 
going  to  the  Queen's,  drawing  room  and  to  the 
Levy  as  soon  as  there  is  any.  Tell  George  the 
same  thing,  and  that  I  entreat  and  insist  upon 
it,  that  he  should  not  neglect  it.  The  Books  at 
Argyll  House   I   fear  much   will   be  spoil'd  by 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY   LETTERS     447 

damp ;  you  must  examine  them  carefully.  I 
cannot  send  you  the  key,  as  it  is  left  locked  up 
at  PMin',  but  you  may  pick  the  lock  or  get  in  at 
the  Window.  If  there  still  remains  any  farming 
or  Gardening  books,  send  them,  or  any  Books 
which  George  thinks  can  be  spar'd  from  London. 
Plans  and  Alaps  relating  to  this  place  or  Ros- 
neath  search  for  carefully  and  send,  particu- 
larly one  of  the  town  of  Inveraray  nail'd  up 
against  the  Wall.  Don't  shilly  shally  and 
loiter  about  this,  but  set  about  it  directly. 

Send  me  tlie  following  Musick — Non  nobis 
Domine,  in  all  the  Parts  as  perform'd  lately 
at  the  Oratorio.  My  favourite  March  for  the 
Guards,  much  admir'd  ten  or  twelve  years  ago, 
tho'  perhaps  scarcely  known  now.  George 
knows  what  I  mean. 

I  charge  you  stricth^  to  visit  frequently  all 
your  relations  and  Report  to  me  the  state  of 
their  health.  Thank  Camelia  for  two  letters  I 
received  some  time  ago.  All  your  friends  here 
are  well,  viz.  Sir  Wm.  Ferrier,  Doctor,  Capt. 
Campbell,  and  Mr.  Tewson.  The  Hills  swarm 
with  Roebucks  and  black  Cocks.  Richy  began 
yesterday  to  whip  the  River,  but  without 
success.  We  have  had  very  bad  weather  for 
eight  or  ten  days,  constant  snow  on  the  hills, 
but  little  or  none  on  the  downs ;  at  present  and 
for  three  or  four  days  past  remarkably  fine. 
Best  love  to  George.  Influenza  is  at  Edin""  and 
Glasgow  and  Campbeltown,  but  scarcely  a 
slight  cold  in  this  family  during  the  whole 
winter,  consisting  of  near  40  persons.  Farewell, 
my  dearest  boy. 

Most  affectionately  Yours, 

Argyll. 


448     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

The  Marquis  of  Lome  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

London.  Feh'^  20'\   1802. 

My  Dear  Father, 

If  you  like  to  try  if  Pheasants  will  suc- 
ceed in  Roseneath,  you  may  for  an  Expence 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  ten  pounds 
make  a  very  fair  trial  with  every  prospect  of 
success.  A  Man  has  undertaken  to  deliver  them 
safe  and  well  at  Roseneath  at  a  Guinea  a  bird, 
which  people  who  understand  these  things  tell 
me  is  reasonable  enough — the  man  who  goes 
with  them  will  give  instruction  to  person  there 
for  taking  care  of  whatever  number  of  them  it 
may  be  right  to  keep  for  breeding  from. 

A  Trial  upon  a  smaller  scale  might  perhaps  be 
only  throwing  away  Money.  I  think  this  has 
every  chance  of  success.     I  inclose  his  proposal. 

Aff'^  yours, 

LORNE. 

The  King  has  been  very  ill  but  is  much 
better. 

(Endorsed)         1/  Lome.     Pheasants. 


From  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Levenside,  Saturday. 

[Feh.  20th,   1802.] 

Sir, 

I  inclose  Mr.  Ferrier's  Letter  to  you.  I 
perceive  he  has  mistaken  the  day,  Saturday 
being  the  27th  instead  of  Friday.  I  wish  you 
to  ask  all  the  people  mentioned  in  it  in  my 
name  ;  besides  I  would  have  you  ask  Mr. 
Donald,  Mr.  Smollet,  and  any  others  whom  you 


OFFICIAL   AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     449 

think  would  take  it  well  to  be  invited.  I  go 
to-day  to  Blythwood,  and  to-morrow  or  next 
day  to  the  Mures,  both  of  whom  I  mean  to  ask 
to  the  Dinner  at  Dumbarton.  I  shall  also 
request  you  to  take  the  trouble  of  ordering  the 
dinner,  as  you  will  be  the  best  judge  how  many 
persons  there  will  be  at  it.  I  shall  return  here 
on  Thursday  or  Friday  next. 

Your  obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Inverary,  Feby.  2lst,   1802. 

Dear  George, 

An  order  has  been  received  here  this  day 
ordering  all  the  Volunteer  Corps  in  the  County 
to  hold  themselves  in  readiness  to  March  on 
the  shortest  Notice  ;  as  you  are  now  appointed 
Colonel  over  the  whole,  it  will  be  necessary  for 
you  to  appoint  Me  to  some  particular  Batt'n, 
the  1st  of  course,  as  Lord  Moira  will  not  pro- 
bably admit  of  a  Col.  and  Lt.-Col.  Comm't  of 
the  whole ;  during  your  absence,  however,  I 
shall  take  the  Command  as  eldest  Lt.-Col.,  and 
have  accordingly  ordered  letters  to  be  written 
to  the  Captains  of  Companies  over  the  whole 
County  to  Hold  themselves  in  readiness  to 
March  immediately.  I  hope  these  fellows  will 
realy  come  at  last  and  be  done  with  it.  What- 
ever orders  you  have  to  give  direct  them  to  Me 
or  Officer  Comm'g  at  Inverary,  and  if  I  am 
absent  Graham  will  get  them. 

Yours  affec'y, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


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424 

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424 

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424 

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504 

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378 

450     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

You   Should   also  appoint   all  the  other  Lt.- 
Cols,  to  their  respective  Batt'ns. 

1st  Batt.  Lord  J.  Campbell  . . 

2nd  Sir  A.  Campbell,  Bart. 

3rd  Lt.-Col.  Graham 

4th  Lt.-Col.  McLean  of  Ardgour 

5th  (of  3  Comjjanies  only)  Major  Colin  Campbell 

2154 
(Endorsement)     Feb.  21st  1802, 

from  my  Brother  about 

the  Lt. -Colonel  of  Volunteers. 


The  Marquis  of  Lome  to  Lord  Breadalhane. 

Inverary,  Nov.  2Gth,   1802. 

My  Deae,  Lord, 

I  have,  agreeably  to  your  request,  with- 
drawn the  two  Companies  from  your  Estate 
from  Ardgowan's  Battallion.  Whatever  offer 
of  Service  you  may  wish  to  forward  to  Govern- 
ment, I  shall  lose  no  time  in  transmitting.  At 
the  same  time  I  have  to  observe  that,  according 
to  the  various  letters  I  have  received  from  Lord 
Hobart,  and  Mr.  Yorke,  I  do  not  conceive 
Government  have  any  intention  of  accepting 
more  Volunteer  Companies  than  will  make  the 
number  amount  to  six  times  the  original  Militia, 
which  number  will  be  completed  by  the  re- 
commendation and  acceptance  of  the  Eardach 
Company  if  you  should  wish  it. 

With  regard  to  the  24  Companies  planned 
on  the  old  system,  they  were  selected  with 
attention  to  the  former  where  it  was  thought 
proper,  and  above  all  with  an  attention  to  the 
population  of  the  various  districts,  so  that  a 
fair  proportion  of  young  men  might  be  left 
for  the  Battalions,    the    Army  of    Reserve  and 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     451 

Militia.  You  will  observe,  my  Dear  Lord,  that 
I  make  this  answer  to  the  last  paragraph  of 
your  letter  more  to  convince  you  how  desirous 
I  am  to  attend  to  any  request  of  your's  than 
from  any  immediate  connection  it  appears  to 
have  with  the  subject  of  our  correspondence. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be,  my  Dear  Lord, 

Yours  Sincerely, 

LORNE. 

The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Inveraray,  Jan.   \%th,  1803. 

My  dear  Johnny, 

I  find  by  your  letter  that  your  delay 
could  not  be  avoided.  I  much  approve  of  your 
propriety  in  attending  at  the  Birthday.  You 
might  have  said  a  word  or  two  with  respect  to 
your  reception  at  the  Levee  and  a.t  Frogmore. 

There  are  some  indirect  Reports  here  of  your 
intending  to  extend  your  travelling  Opperations 
beyond  France,  but  I  cannot  approve  of  that, 
as  I  nmst  have  you  here  the  beginning  of 
Summer,  and  consider  your  journey  at  present 
to  be  only  on  account  of  your  health  and  in 
order  to  avoid  the  bad  Climate  of  Britain.  I 
have  by  Ferrier's  means  remitted  to  Messrs. 
Drummonds  a  fund  of  Credit  for  Your  Expences, 
which  I  hope  and  trust  you  will  keep  within 
proper  bounds.  Let  nothing  be  wanted  or 
wasted.  IMy  best  love  to  your  Brother.  The 
Weather  is  bitterly  cold  here,  tho  no  snow  on 
the  low  ground.  Augusta  and  your  friends 
here  are  well.  Continue  to  let  me  hear  from 
you  once  in  ten  days  whether  at  home  or  abroad. 
My  Comp*^  to  the  Doctor. 

Most  affectionately  yours, 

Argyll. 


452     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

To  the  Eight  Honble.  Lord  John  Campbell^ 
Argyll  House,  London,  from  his  sister 
Charlotte,  1803. 

Welcome  once  more  to  Britain's  shore, 
Endcar'd  to  me  by  Absence  more, 
Absence  that  TaHsman  which  makes 
Our  Passions  change  in  Proteus'  shapes. 
Absence  That  softens  all  the  Mind 
And  real  Friendships  firmer  bind. 

In  Rhyme  and  Prose,  dear  Johny,  welcome, 
altho'  you  do  not  deserve  it  from  me,  as  I  only 
know  of  your  arrival  thro'  Doctor  Robinson. 
However, 

In  vain  Resentment  would  her  Arms  supply 
When  the  long  wish'd  for  Friend  again  is  nigh, 
The  Friend  whom  we  perchance  have  deem'd  unkind, 
Lost  to  Affection  and  to  Friendship  blind. 
Soon  as  again  they  meet  our  longing  view 
Doubt  fades  in  Joy  and  we  believe  them  true. 
Ah  who  that  scents  the  Rose's  perfumed  Breath 
Would  grasp  the  Thorn  that  lurks  its  leaves  beneath. 

In  compliance  with  this  Maxim  I  forgive  your 
Idleness,  and  Imagine  I  could  not  have  formed 
a  more  perfect  one  had  I  studied  Moore's 
Philosophy  of  pleasure,  which,  however,  I  have 
not  seen.  We  left  Inveraray  a  fortnight  ago, 
exchanged 

The  Beauties  of  its  Rocks  and  hanging  woods, 
Its  Craggy  Summits  and  its  silver  floods, 
And  above  all,  oh  !    sad  exchange,  to  leave 
The  best  of  Fathers  whom  'tis  Grief  to  Grieve, 
For  Empty  Streets  where  Cats  their  Orgies  hold 
Or  Two  Legg'd  Cats  more  Horrid  to  behold, 
For  sounds  of  War  that  Martial  deeds  bespeak, 
Whose  bare  idea  pales  My  Icy  Cheek, 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     453 

Till  sad  reflection  reconciles  the  thougiit 

That  Honor  must  at  Times  with  blood  be  bought, 

t)an  make  a  Female  Breast  with  Glory  fire, 

Feel  Herself  Daughter  of  a  British  Sire, 

And  bow  resign 'd  to  ills  the  Times  require. 

This  has  even  made  Jack  rise  at  Six  every 
Morning,  nor  is  this  revolution  to  be  transient, 
for  there  is  a  great  Field  Day  on  Friday  at 
which  all  the  Troops  Hereabout  are  to  be 
present.  As  Jack  must  be  constantly  at  Dal- 
keith and  that  I  cannot  bear  to  be  absent  from 
him,  we  shall  avail  ourselves  in  part  of  a  very 
kind  offer  Lord  Ancram  made  us,  and  sleep  at 
Newbattle  the  remainder  of  this  Week,  when  I 
intend  to  pass  my  Time  between  that  and 
Dalkeith  House.  I  have  not  found  my  sejour 
here  so  unpleasant  as  I  expected,  for 

My  Infants  now  with  opening  Charms  display 
Fresh  Joys,  fresh  duties  for  the  coming  Day, 
A  new  exhaustless  Source  of  Pleasure  shew^, 
Yet  Cares  still  mix  in  Pleasure's  Cup  below 
And  anxious  Love  in  every  State  Supplies 
Enough  to  Warn  us  where  true  Blessing  lies. 
Sojourners  here,  probation's  Path  is  ours 
And  lasting  Peace  dwells  l)ut  in  Heavenly  Bowers, 
Yet  no  repining  Spirit  Breathes  the  Line, 
For  Earthly  Bliss  its  purest  Bliss  is  mine, 
And  all  My  wish  is  to  Deserve  My  Fate, 
To  Joy  in  this,  nor  fear  another  State. 

We  dined  the  other  Day  with  Bob  and  Arch. 
She  has  got  a  new  Wig  and  it  is  irresistable  not 
to  call  Her  the  Arch  Bob.  In  spite  of  a  little 
imavoidal)le  laugh,  I  feel  them  good  obliging 
People,  and  Jack  and  I  may  say  with  Prince 
Henry  we  could  better  spare  a  better  Man.  At 
their  House  we  heard  a  Blind  Boy  play  most 


454     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

charmingly  on  the  Harpsichord.  He  is  not 
above  25  and  quite  simple  and  unpolish'd,  all 
but  in  that  which 

Heaven  in  Mercy  lent 
To  soothe  the  111  its  chastening  Hand  has  sent. 
The  Spark  of  Genius  Offspring  sent  from  High 
Gives  tripple  brightness  to  the  Mental  Eye. 
What  tho'  the  Visual  Orb  of  Light  is  fled, 
To  Earthly  Beauties  and  creation's  Dead, 
The  Powers  of  Harmony  his  Soul  can  guide 
To  living  Waters  whose  refreshing  Tide 
Bids  him  aspire  to  higher  scenes  of  Bliss, 
And  trace  in  Heaven  that  Joy  denied  in  this. 

We  persuaded  the  poor  Young  Man  to  come 
here  the  other  Evening,  and  had  Mr.  and  Mad™^ 
Corri,  whose  performance  delighted  our  Blind 
Friend  much.  We  had  quite  a  musical  Night, 
to  the  great  discomfiture  of  Camelia  Rair, 

Whose  very  name  Inspires 

With  Gay  ideas  and  Poetic  fires. 

More  young  and  Blooming  Ninon  never  knew 

The  Grace  of  youth's  first  Season  to  renew, 

All  but  in  this  that  Cards  o'er  Songs  prevail, 

And  lengthen'd  sounds  Her  Ears  Deem  somewhat  stale. 

Quavers  on  Quavers  rise  till  Dumb  despair 

Lost  us  the  presence  of  Camelia  Rair, 

Who  with  light  step  fled  quickly  down  the  stair. 

After  supper  the  Corris  sung  us  many  very 
nice  Duetts  that  I  mean  some  Day,  and  I  hope 
soon,  to  Delight  your  Ears  with. 

Come  soon,  Dear  Brother,  after  Dangers  past 
Sweet's  the  Embrace  that  clasps  Thee  safe  at  last. 
In  me  and  mine  you'll  equal  meet  a  Friend 
Always  the  same  and  True  unto  the  End. 
No  Honey 'd  Phrase  of  Flattery  you  w  ill  find 
But  the  Warm  Dictates  of  the  faithful  Mind. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     455 

These  Hasty  Lines  my  Heart's  best  wishes  speak, 
Wisiies  as  warm  as  these  faint  words  are  weak, 
To  bid  a  Sister's,  Brother's,  Welcome,  Join 
And  Tell  Tiiee  Truly  we  are  ever  thine. 

C.  M.  Campbell  &   John  Campbell. 

I   wrote   part   of   this   yesterday   but   not   in 
time  for  the  Post. 


The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

Invebaray,  2ith  April,  1803. 

My  dearest  George, 

A  letter  from  you  of  seven  Pages  is  well 
entitled  to  an  answer.  Seeing  that  I  am  now 
inevitably  engaged  in  a  most  expensive  under- 
taking, I  am  now  more  anxiously  endeavouring 
to  check  the  Progress  of  it,  than  I  was  a  few 
weeks  ago  to  press  the  dispatch  of  it.  I  refer 
you  to  Graham  for  particulars,  but  being  every 
day  more  and  more  convinced  that  I  can  never 
inhabit  it,  I  must  divide  the  expence  into  two 
or  three  Years  which  I  once  flattered  myself 
might  have  been  furnished  in  one.  In  the 
meantime  your  display  of  Taste  and  Bonomis 
Fame  is  second.  But  let  me  observe  to  you 
en  passant  that  Taste  without  Prudence  and 
P^conomy  is  a  mill-stone  about  a  man's  neck. 
And  therefore  I  hope  you  will  not  associate  too 
much  with  Bonomis  and  Nasmith.  You  will 
find  them  expensive  Pets ;  they  will  not  consult 
your  Pecuniary  interest  as  poor  old  Mylne  us'd 
to  do  mine.  I  send  you  a  Copy  of  what  I 
wrote  him  yesterday. 

I  have  many  other  things  to  say  to  you,  but 
my  Eyes,  health,  and  Spirits,  which  are  rapidly 


456     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

declining,  forbid  my  writing  more.  I  wrote 
this  day  to  John  directing  him  to  come  home 
soon,  unless  his  health  requires  his  stay  abroad. 
My  reasons  are  my  own  comfort  by  his  presence 
here,  the  Propriety  of  his  taking  some  part  in 
Military  matters  in  case  of  War,  and  the  heavy 
expence  I  am  subject  to,  having  remitted  already 
two  Bills  of  five  hundred  each,  exclusive  of  his 
usual  allowance.  Your  Idea  of  appropriating 
so  much  room  to  Wine  Cellars  and  Kitchen, 
shew  you  mean  to  keep  a  good  table  or  set  up 
the  Wine  Merchant  Business,  but  these  spaces 
will  be  much  better  applied  to  the  accommoda- 
tion of  housekeeper  and  butler,  with  dining  and 
sitting  rooms  for  upper  and  lower  servants. 
Most  affectionately  yours, 

Argyll. 


Lord  Frederick  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Half  Moon  Stbeet, 

May  Qth,   1803. 

My  dear  Brother, 

It  grieves  me  much  that  my  Letter 
about  the  Election  of  a  Scotch  Peer  gave  you 
so  much  Uneasiness.  It  appear 'd  to  me  a 
matter  of  total  Indifference — and  that  you 
would  have  flung  my  Letter  into  the  Fire  and 
have  put  an  end  to  all  thought  about  the  Matter 
if  it  gave  you  the  least  Anxiety  about  what,  or 
whether  you  should  take  any  Part  upon  the 
Occasion. 

I  wish  I  could  send  something  certain  about 
Peace  or  War,  to  put  your  mind  at  ease  and  in 
better  Spirits.  I  am  told  from  every  Person 
I  meet  with  that  We  must  wait  till  another 
Dispatch  comes  from  Lord  Whitworth  in  perfect 


OFFICIAL   AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     457 

Suspence.     But    I     am    happy    in    finding    the 
General    Opinion    is   that   Bonaparte   will   give 
way — and  that  We  shall  yet  have  Peace. 
Most  affectionately  yours, 

F.  C. 


The  Marquis  of  Lome  to  Lord  Hobart. 

Inveraray,  11th  Aug.   1803. 

My  Lord, 

After  consulting  with  my  Father  and 
some  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  County,  I  beg 
leave  to  state  to  you  that  the  division  of  the 
1280  Volunteers  of  Argyleshire  into  24  Com- 
panies of  53  instead  of  16  of  80  appears  to  me 
to  be  absolutely  necessary  for  the  proper  defence 
of  the  very  extended  line  of  Coast  of  this  County. 
I  hope  therefore  your  Lordship  will  have  the 
goodness  to  take  the  necessary  steps  for  gazetting 
the  officers,  &c.  In  reference  to  a  Letter  which 
I  have  the  honour  to  write  to  you  of  this  date, 
I  beg  leave  to  observe  that  the  change  of  the 
strength  of  the  Companies  from  80  to  53  is 
another  reason  why  it  was  impossible  to  send 
accurate  Muster  Rolls,  nor  the  Gentlemen  offer- 
ing Companies  thinking  it  necessary,  which 
they  did  not. 

With  regard  to  a  second  Battalion  of  the  91st, 
much  will  depend  upon  the  County  allowed 
and  being  allowed  to  name  the  officers  ;  from 
the  attachment  which  Highlanders  have  to 
their  countrymen. 

I  have  written  to  H.R.H.  the  Duke  of  York 
on  the  subject  by  this  day's  post. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be 

Your  obedient  Servant, 

LORNE. 
VOL.   II.  9 


458     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 


Circular. 

Downing  Street, 

22nd  August,  1803. 

My  Lord, 

His  Majesty  having  been  graciously 
pleased  to  direct  that  in  future  the  correspond- 
ence upon  all  matters  relating  to  the  Militia  and 
Volunteer  Corps  should  be  conducted  by  the 
Secretary  of  State  for  the  Home  Department, 
I  am  commanded  to  signify  to  your  Lordship 
His  Majesty's  Pleasure  that  your  Official  Letters 
should  henceforward  be  addressed  to  that 
Department. 

In  conveying  His  Majesty's  Commands  upon 
this  occasion  I  have  particular  satisfaction  in 
expressing  to  your  Lordship  the  just  Sense  I 
entertain  of  the  zealous  Co-operation  which  I 
have  received  from  your  Lordship,  and  more 
especially  in  the  unremitting  attention  you 
have  manifested  in  carrying  into  effect  the 
several  important  measures  which  have  lately 
been  committed  to  your  charge. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  My  Lord, 
Your  Lordship's  most  obedient 

humble  Servant, 

HOBART. 

His  Majesty's  Lieutenant 
OF  THE  County  of  Argyle. 

{Endorsed)  Lord  Hobart,  correspondence  relat- 
ing to  Militia  and  Volunteers  to  be  in  future 
with  the  Secretary  of  State  for  the  Home 
Department. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     459 


Circular. 

Downing  Street, 

22nd  August,  1803. 

^Iy  Lord, 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  the  outline 
of  a  plan  for  a  voluntary  Naval  Armament  for 
the  protection  of  the  Coast,  which  has  received 
the  approbation  of  His  Majesty's  Confidential 
Servants,  and  which  it  is  believed  may  be 
carried  to  an  extent  that  would  complete  the 
Security  of  the  Coast,  under  all  circumstances, 
against  any  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  enemy, 
and  be  likewise  productive  of  other  beneficial 
consequences. 

I  have  particular  satisfaction  in  acquainting 
you  that  the  East  India  Company,  The  Corpora- 
tion of  the  Trinity  House,  Tlie  Cinque  Ports, 
(The  Proprietors  of  Lighters  employ'd  in  the 
Foreign  and  Domestic  Commerce  of  the  Thames, 
and  several  of  the  owners  of  Ships  employed  in 
the  Coasting  Trade,)  have  already  come  to  re- 
solutions for  carrying  the  proposed  plan  into 
Execution. 

The  importance  of  the  Commerce  of  the  Sea 
Port  Towns  within  the  County  of  Argyll,  and 
the  loyal  and  liberal  Spirit  of  their  Inhabitants, 
animated  and  encouraged  by  your  active  and 
well  directed  zeal,  afford  the  Strongest  ground 
of  expectation  that  this  measure  may  derive 
essential  assistance  from  the  resources  in  men 
and  Shipping  which  those  Towns  possess  ;  and 
that,  by  means  of  a  judicious  application  of 
those  resources,  the  Coast  of  the  County  of 
Argyle  may  obtain  that  constant  protection 
which,   you  must  be  aware,   might  not  at  all 


460     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

times     be    equally     attainable    by    any    other 
means. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  My  Lord, 
Your  Lordship's  most  obedient 

humble  Servant, 

HOBART. 

His  Majesty's  Lieutenant 
OF  THE  County  of  Argyle. 

(Endorsed)  Circular,  22nd  August,  1803.  Lord 
Hobart  with  Plans  for  the  defence  of  Sea 
Port  Towns. 


To  the  Marquis  of  Lome, 

Inverabery,  23  Aug   1803. 

My  Lord, 

As  it  is  probable  we  may  not  have  the 
honour  of  again  seeing  your  Lordship  on  business 
till  after  the  ballots  for  the  Army  of  Reserve 
are  drawn,  we  consider  it  our  indispensable  duty 
to  state  to  you  what  are  our  sentiments  on 
the  subject  of  the  exemptions  claimed  by  the 
volunteers  of  this  County  from  the  ballot  for  the 
Army  of  Reserve  and  Militia,  and  so  doing,  we 
trust  your  Lordship  will  have  the  goodness  to 
believe  that  our  doing  so  does  not  proceed  from 
a  wish  of  unnecessarily  intruding  our  opinions. 
From  a  careful  perusal  of  the  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  from  every  information  we  have 
been  able  to  obtain  of  the  practice  in  other 
Counties,  we  are  fully  persuaded,  that  general 
exemptions,  on  the  footing  proposed  at  a  former 
meeting  of  your  Deputies,  are  not  legal.  Under 
this  impression  and  with  great  deference  to 
your  Lordship,  we  submit  the  importance  of 
your  decision  in  this  case.     It  does  not  appear 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     461 

to  us,  as  we  understand  was  stated  at  a  former 
meeting,  that  a  discretionary  power  is  vested 
in  his  Majesty  with  regard  to  these  exemptions 
— they  appear  to  be  privileges  merely  personal, 
conferred  on  individuals  under  certain  con- 
ditions minutely  described  in  the  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  certificates  from  Commanding  Officers 
as  to  the  dates  of  inrolment  are  particularly 
required  as  evidence,  befor  these  claims  to 
exemption  can  be  sustained,  and  we  are  humbly 
of  opinion  no  general  exemption  of  Companies 
founded  on  the  dates  of  these  offers  or  the 
acceptance  of  them  can,  under  these  acts,  be 
sustained. 

This  is  the  practice  in  London  and  Edin- 
burgh, and,  it  is  believed,  in  every  other  place. 
Numerous  applications  have  been  made  to  us 
by  the  Country  people,  who,  from  their  frequent 
intercourse  with  the  neighbouring  Counties, 
know  the  practice  thus,  and  will,  of  course, 
feel  the  strongest  dissatisfaction  if  the  whole 
protection  and  privileges  of  the  laws  are  not 
extended  to  them  in  common  with  the  in- 
habitants of  other  Counties. 

We  have  heard  it  hinted  that  some  indulgence 
is  due  to  the  persons  composing  the  present 
Volunteer  Companies,  but  we  cannot  admit 
that  greater  favour  is  due  to  them  than  the 
other  inhabitants  of  the  Coimty  who  were  and 
are  ready  to  inroll  themselves  under  your 
Lordship,  and  it  will  be  in  your  recollection 
that  at  a  period  of  as  great  danger  as  the  present, 
when  to  the  threat  of  invasion  was  added  the 
dread  of  internal  insurrection,  the  whole  in- 
habitants of  the  County  inrolled  under  his 
Grace  your  father,  and  an  Army  of  four  thou- 
sand  highlanders,  to    be   commanded    by  your 


462     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Lordship,  was  offered  to  Government.  The  ad- 
vantages which  the  present  volunteers  have  on 
the  proposed  new  Hnes  independent  of  these 
exemptions  are  so  great  that  it  is  not  likely 
they  will  retire  from  the  old  and  enter  the  new 
lines. 

If  your  Lordship  is  pleased  to  agree  with  us 
in  opinion  a  remedy  can  easily  be  applied. 
The  district  Clerks  may  be  directed  to  make 
returns  of  persons  improperly  excused  and 
orders  given  to  relieve  those  balloted  in  their 
place  of  the  penalties  they  have  paid,  or  from 
the  service,  if  they  have  entered  into  it. 

At  the  same  time  that  we  feel  it  our  bounden 
and  strict  duty  to  state  these  matters  freely  to 
your  Lordship  in  private,  we  beg  leave  to 
assure  you  that  our  outmost  endeavour  will  be 
used,  on  this  momentous  occasion,  to  bring 
forward  the  inhabitants  with  zeal  &  unanimity 
in  the  districts  where  we  reside. 

We  have  the  honour  to  be  with  much  respect, 
My  Lord, 

Your  Lordship's  IMost 

Most  humble  Servants, 

DoN°    Campbell. 

Neill   Malcolm. 

J.  Campbell. 

John  Macnulty. 

Alex.  Campbell. 

John  Campbell. 


Mr,  John  Campbell  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

12th  Sept'  1803. 

My  Lord, 

The   Earl   of   Breadalbane   has   obtained 
offers  of  service,   from   near   600   Tenants  and 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     403 

residenters  on  his  estates  in  Argyllshire — Bar- 
caldine  from  100  and  Monzie  and  Balevcolan 
from  about  100  more,  so  that  his  Lordship  can 
send  out  a  moderate  sized  Battalion  when  the 
public  service  requires  it.  It  appears,  however, 
that  government  at  present  are  not  disposed 
to  encourage  Volunteer  Corps  to  the  extent 
once  proposed  ;  And  therefore  I  presume  it 
will  in  the  meantime  be  sufficient  for  his  Lord- 
ship, to  send  out  as  many  as  will  anticipate  the 
compulsory  provisions  of  the  general  Defence 
Acts,  and  Satisfy  the  calls  of  government, 
according  to  the  proportion  which  the  popula- 
tion of  these  districts  bears  to  the  general 
population  of  the  County,  agreeably  to  the 
lists  under  the  Act  when  they  are  finally  made 
up. 

In  case  these  calls  are  made  parochially,  I 
beg  leave  to  inform  your  Lordship  that,  from 
the  above  offers,  at  least  one  company  of  60  men 
can  be  called  out  in  the  parish  of  Kilchrunan — • 
two  in  the  parish  of  Glenenchay,  one  in  Kilninver 
parish,  one  in  Kilbrandan  (exclusive  of  the 
Eardale  people),  and  one  in  Ardchattan.  I  shall 
be  glad  to  be  honoured  with  your  Lordship's 
instructions  when  convenient,  as  to  what  pro- 
portion of  these  may  now  be  required,  under 
the  call  in  Lord  Hobart's  letter  of  the  .30'"  July. 
And  I  have  the  honour  to  be,  with  respect. 
Your  Lordship's  most  obedient  & 
very  humble  servant, 

John  Campbell. 

Stronemaoachan,  12„,  Sept'  1803. 

Marquiss  of  Lorne, 

Lord  Lieut,  of  Argyllshire. 


464     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 


Major -General  Wemyss  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

Glasgow,  21th  Sept.,  1803. 

My  Lord, 

I  have  the  honor  to  enclose  a  Form  of 
Return,  which  I  beg  you  will  cause  to  be  filled 
up,  and  transmitted  to  me  here  with  as  little 
delay  as  possible. 

I  request  your  Lordship  will  be  pleased  to 
acquaint  me  as  soon  as  the  whole  Volunteer 
Force  to  be  raised  in  the  County  of  Argyll,  in 
terms  of  the  Secretary  of  State's  Letter,  shall 
have  been  Gazetted,  and  their  proportion  of 
Arms  obtained,  that  I  may  be  enabled  so  to 
regulate  the  time  for  their  Inspection  as  to 
accomplish  this  Service  speedily,  and  without 
inconvenience  to  the  respective  Corps.  I  shall 
forward  to  Your  Lordship,  by  the  first  oppor- 
tunity, six  Copies  of  Instructions  from  His  Royal 
Highness  The  Duke  of  York,  for  the  use  of  the 
Volunteer  Infantry.  It  is  intended  that  each 
Company  should  receive  one,  and  as  soon  as  a 
sufficient  number  come  to  hand,  and  that  I  am 
favoured  with  the  Return  of  the  Volunteers 
Corps  in  your  County,  they  shall  be  transmitted 
to  your  Lordship  accordingly.  The  Commander 
of  the  Forces  recommends  that,  in  the  Equipment 
of  the  Volunteers,  the  warmth  and  comfort  of 
their  clothing  may  be  more  attended  to,  than 
its  shew  and  appearance — he  particularly  sug- 
gests the  propriety  of  their  being  provided  with 
Great  Coats,  and  warm  Pantaloons  or  long  Cloth 
Gaiters,   and  besides  the  Knapsack,  that  each 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     465 

man  supplies  himself  with  a  Haversack  for  the 
purpose  of  carrying  his  provisions. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be 

Your  Lordship's  most  obedient 
humble  Servant, 

W.  Wemyss,  M.G. 


Lord  Moira  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

Nov.  30th,   180.3. 

My  dear  Lord, 

I  have  this  morning  had  the  honor   of 
vour  letter  of  the  28th. 

You  probably  are  not  aware  that  the  Regu- 
lation transmitted  to  me  by  the  Secretary  of 
State  allows  the  Issue  of  Firelocks  to  but  Half 
the  number  of  the  Volunteers  of  your  County. 
Pikes  could  readily  be  furnished  for  the  re- 
mainder ;  and  you  shall  have  them  if  you  think 
proper.  But,  without  disparaging  them  as  a 
weapon  (which  they  do  not  deserve),  they  would 
not  answer  entirely  to  your  satisfaction  or  to 
my  wishes.  I  am,  therefore,  employed  in  putting 
into  condition  a  quantity  of  Muskets  which  were 
not  essentially  damaged,  and  I  trust  that  I  shall 
soon  be  enabled  to  send  you  a  Supply.  Govern- 
ment has  given  to  me  the  Power,  in  concurrence 
with  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  any  County,  to  call 
into  Pay  and  Service,  for  a  time  to  be  agreed 
upon,  any  proportion  of  the  Volunteers  that  I 
may  deem  expedient.  If  you  would  wish  a 
Battalion  or  two  Battalions  of  yours  to  be  so 
embodied  during  the  winter,  I  will  make  the 
}:)roposal  to  you  in  Form  :  And  I  should  imagine 
it  would  be  desirable  to  the  Highlanders  who 
have  little  to  do  at  this  Season.  Where  I  should 
station  them,  I  cannot  exactly  say  ;  but  I  should 


466     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

have  no  objections  to  Battalions  relieving  each 
other  every  Month  or  Six  weeks.  Should  this 
arrangement  take  place,  the  Men  who  are  to  be 
marched  out  of  the  County  should  leave  their 
Arms  behind  for  other  Volunteers,  and  should 
receive  fresh  Muskets  at  the  Post  where  they 
were  to  enter  upon  duty. 

My  situation  here  affords  so  little  means  of 
paying  attention  to  any  one  that  I  feel  it  a  most 
fortunate  chance  to  have  an  opening  by  which  I 
may  be  able  to  do  something  agreeable  to  you. 
The  Duke  of  York,  in  consequence  of  a  remark 
in  one  of  my  letters,  has  left  to  my  judgement 
an  alteration  in  the  plan  of  two  or  three  Inspec- 
tion Districts.  If  there  is  any  Field  Officer  on 
Half  Pay  whom  you  would  wish  to  have  ap- 
pointed Inspector  of  Volunteers  for  Argyleshire, 
Bute,  or  Renfrewshire,  let  me  have  his  name  ; 
and  I  will  immediately  recommend  him  to  His 
Royal  Highness. 

I  have  the  Honor,  my  Dear  Lord,  to  remain 
with  great  regard 

Your  Lordship's  faithful  and 

obedient  Servant, 

MoiRA. 

Marquis  of  Lorne. 

Lord  Moira  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

Edinburgh,  Novr.  30,  1803. 

My  Lord, 

As  my  situation  demands  from  me  that 
I  shall  use  my  best  endeavour  to  keep  up,  to  the 
Amount  which  His  Majesty  and  the  Legislature 
have  presented,  that  Force  allotted  for  the 
defence  of  North  Britain,  I  am  convinced  that 
your  Lordship  cannot  misconstrue  the  liberty  I 
take  in  soliciting  your  active  assistance  towards 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     4G7 

completing  as  speedily  as  possible  the  Argyle- 
shire  Regiinent  of  Militia.  That  Regiment  is  in 
its  numbers  very  short  of  the  Quota  required 
for  the  County  by  the  Aet  of  Parliament.  Upon 
my  enquiring  into  the  Cause  of  this  deficiency. 
Colonel  Campbell  has  accounted  for  it  by  saying 
that  a  great  number  of  the  Individuals  drawn 
at  the  Ballot  declined  serving  and  exonerated 
themselves  by  paying  the  fine  of  Ten  Pounds  ; 
which  sum,  however,  has  been  found  insufficient 
to  procure  Substitutes  respectively  for  each 
Person.  I  beg  leave  to  state  that  it  is  an  error 
to  imagine  the  County  either  limited  to  the  offer 
of  a  Bounty  of  Ten  Pounds  or  secured  against 
the  Penalties  of  Default  by  having  made  the 
tender  of  that  Sum  for  each  Recruit.  The 
Law  Officers  of  the  Crown  have  given  their 
opinion,  founded  upon  the  clear  Spirit  of  the 
Aet,  that  the  Fines  only  form  an  aggregate  Fund 
in  aid  of  those  Assessments  upon  Landed  Pro- 
perty to  which  the  Counties  must  recur  if  they 
cannot  furnish  their  number  of  Men  by  other 
procedure  :  For,  as  your  Lordship  well  knows, 
every  County  is  liable  to  a  mulct  of  Ten  Pounds, 
to  be  repeated  at  each  successive  Quarter  Ses- 
sion, for  every  Man  deficient  from  it's  Militia  ; 
thro'  whatsoever  Cause  that  deficiency  has  arisen. 
When  this  Process  hangs  over  the  County,  I 
trust  no  charge  of  intrusion  can  rest  upon  me 
for  preferring  the  mode  of  personal  entreaty, 
which  I  urge  with  the  sincercst  respect. 
I  have  the  honor,  My  Lord,  to  remain 

Your  Lordship's  most  obedient  Servant, 

MoiRA,  General. 
The  Marquis  of  Lorne, 

H.M.^s  Lieutenant  for  the  County  of 
Argyle, 


468     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 


Lady  Charlotte  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 

Queen  Stkeet, 

December  27th,   1803. 

My  Dearest  Papa, 

If  I  have  not  written  these  last  five  or 
six  days  it  is  because  I  have  not  known  what  to 
say.  I  am  unwilling  to  write  to  you  upon  any 
Unpleasant  subject,  yet  not  to  mention  the  late 
disagreeable  Affair  at  all  seems  so  unfeeling  that 
I  have  not  known  what  to  do.  Let  this  there- 
fore be  my  Apology,  and  in  adding  no  more  you 
may  believe  that  it  is  not  want  of  feeling  my 
Due  Share  of  Sorrow  and  Regret,  but  a  fear  of 
hurting  you  by  dwelling  longer  on  so  disagree- 
able a  subject,  which  prevents  me  from  giving 
way  to  my  Sentiments.  George  is  still  with  us 
and  always  adds  much  to  our  Society.  We  have 
plenty  of  Gayety,  and  Lord  Moira  and  I  improve 
in  our  Mutual  Friendship.  I  tell  Jack  he  may 
thank  me  for  not  being  sent  either  to  Sunder- 
land or  Port  Patrick,  as  two  Thousand  Men  are 
sent  away,  and  Lord  M.  declares  that  the  Argyll 
Militia  being  the  weakest  would  certainly  be  one 
of  them  if  it  had  not  been  from  his  Wish  not  to 
disturb  Lady  Charlotte — perhaps  there  is  more 
politeness  than  truth  in  this  declaration,  how- 
ever I  am  willing  to  believe  it. 

Lady  Charlotte  Rawdon  is  coming  here 
Directly ;  she  has  taken  the  next  House  to  this. 
Certainly  Edinburgh  never  was  so  gay  or  had 
so  much  good  society  in  it  before.  Adieu,  My 
Dearest  Papa,  believe  me  always 

Your  affec.  &  Dutiful, 

C.  M.  Campbell. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     469 

The  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Lord  Lome. 

lOth  May,   1804. 

My  Dear  George, 

For  still  I  must  call  you  so,  in  spite 
of  Your  extreme  folly  and  unkindness  to  me 
as  well  as  to  Your  Brotlicr  and  Sisters,  who 
must  be  deprived  in  part  of  what  m}^  affection 
would  allot  for  them  in  support  of  their  expences. 
I  have  signed  the  deeds  brought  to  me  by 
Ferrier,  and  with  this,  I  sign  my  forgiveness,  for 
anger  or  resentment  is  not  in  my  composition, 
especially  with  respect  to  my  children.  In 
return  I  expect  your  solemn  promise  and  de- 
claration that  you  will  never  again  play  for 
any  higher  sum  than  twenty  pounds  in  one  day. 
This  will  be  some  satisfaction  to  me  during  the 
few  months  I  probably  have  to  live. 

Never  forget  how  much  we  are  both  obliged 
to  Ferrier,  who  by  the  greatest  diligence  and 
from  Attachment  to  the  Family  has  extricated 
you  a  second  time  from  the  most  unpleasant 
situation,  and  will  point  out  to  you  in  future  how 
with  common  prudence  you  may  live  in  afflu- 
ence and  even  in  splendoiu'  all  your  life.  The 
principal  cause  of  Your  misfortunes  is  the  habit 
you  have  long  been  in,  of  keeping  very  bad 
hours.  They  tend  to  drunkenness,  and  that  to 
Gambling  and  every  ruinous  folly.  The  best 
remedy  is  marriage,  which  if  you  can  find  a 
Woman  to  your  mind  would  keep  you  at  home. 
I  most  earnestly  recommend  it  to  you.  I  do  not 
make  a  point  of  money.  I  will  share  every- 
thing with  You  for  the  short  time  I  have  to 
linger  here.     Adieu. 

Most  affectionately  Yours, 

Argyll. 


470     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

From  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Inveraray,  nth  February,  1806. 

Sir, 

When  last  in  London  I  was  accosted  in 
the  Street  by  a  poor  woman  Avho  demanded 
charity,  and  knowing  by  her  dialect  that  she 
was  a  Scotswoman,  I  asked  her  from  what 
part  of  the  Coimtry  she  came  ;  she  told  me 
from  Glasgow,  and  that  she  was  related  to  one 
Baillie  Menzies  living  in  the  Gorbals,  who  if 
he  knew  her  distressed  situation  would  so  far 
relieve  her  at  least  as  to  pay  her  passage  back 
to  Scotland.  I  told  her  that  I  was  going  to 
Scotland  immediately  and  would  enquire  into 
the  truth  of  her  Story,  and  if  her  relations 
would  not,  I  would  pay  her  passage,  provided 
I  found  her  deserving  of  it  from  their  report. 
She  persisted  that  I  should  find  it  true,  and 
that  her  Maiden  name  was  Mary  McPherson, 
and  that  the  cause  of  her  present  distress  was 
her  husband's  being  pressed  on  board  the 
Fleet,  and  leaving  her  without  any  means  of 
Support. 

What  I  wish  you  to  do  is  to  write  to  any  of 
your  correspondents  in  Glasgow  to  enquire  for 
Baillie  Menzies,  and  ask  him  whether  he  knows 
of  any  such  person  and  whether  she  is  an 
object  deserving  of  Charity.  Her  Name,  Mary 
McPherson.  If  you  can  cause  this  enquiry  to 
be  made  for  me,  without  however  making  use 
of  my  name,  I  should  be  much  obliged  to 
you. 

Your  obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     471 


The  Duke  of  York  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Horse  Guards, 

31s«  Afay,  1806. 

My  Lord, 

I  have  to  acknowledge  your  Lordship's 
Letter  of  the  25th  Instant,  announcing  the 
death  of  Field  IMarslial  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  and 
I  beg  that  your  Lordship  will  be  persuaded  of 
my  sincere  regret  for  this  loss,  and  at  the  same 
time  allow  me  to  express  the  satisfaction  I  shall 
feel  in  any  opportunity  of  testifying  to  His 
Family  the  sense  I  ever  entertained  of  His 
Grace's  distinguished  Character  during  so  long 
a  period  in  the  Service  of  his  Country. 
I  am,  My  Lord, 

Yours, 

Frederick. 
The  Right  Honble. 

Lord  John  Campbell, 
&c.,  &c. 

(Endorsed)  Duke  of  York. 


Lady  Augusta  Clavering  to  Mr.  Campbell. 

Lady  Augusta  Clavering  begs  Mr.  Campbell 
will  make  application  at  the  Greenock  Theatre 
that  she  may  have  a  Box  when  Mrs.  Siddons 
Acts  there,  and  for  every  night  that  she  is  to 
Perform.  She  fmds  it  very  diflicult  to  get  one 
at  Glasgow,  but  hopes  she  shall  not  be  dis- 
appointed at  Greenock.  Ly.  A.  desires  her 
Com'ts  to  Mrs.  Campbell. 

Ardincaple  Castle, 

March  I9th,  1808. 


472     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  Mr.  Robert  Campbell. 

Abdincaple,  Friday  evening. 

[I9th  Aug.  1809.] 

Sir, 

You  will  send  over  the  Duke's  Barge  to- 
morrow to  take  Lord  and  Lady  Ormond  to 
Roseneath.  They  are  at  the  Inn  and  are 
Friends  of  the  Duke's.  I  therefore  think  he 
would  wish  you  to  attend  them  in  person.  It 
is  possible  the  Duke  may  be  here  this  Evening. 

Your  obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  Mr.  Robert  Campbell. 

Abdincaple,  Tuesday  evening. 

[Nov.  1809.] 

Sir, 

I  am  obliged  to  go  to  Inveraray  to- 
morrow upon  some  Business  and  wish  to  know 
whether  I  can  have  a  Pony  of  the  Duke's  at 
Rosneath.  I  should  suppose  the  grey  one  that 
he  rode  on  his  way  here  is  not  yet  returned  to 
Inveraray.  If  that  is  the  case  I  should  wish 
to  have  it  ready  for  me  about  8  o'clock  to- 
morrow morning,  and  a  Boat  sent  to  take  me 
over  a  little  before  that  time.  If  I  receive 
no  answer  to-night  I  shall  conclude  that  the 
Boat  and  Pony  will  be  ready ;  if  you  can  not 
furnish  me  with  the  Latter,  let  me  know  this 
evening. 

Your  Obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


OFFICIAL   AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     473 

From  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Galway,  Sept.  nth,  1812. 

Sir, 

I  have  this  morning  received  yours,  brought 
to  me  all  the  way  from  Hillsborougli  by  the 
Gentleman  "  Mr.  Heetor  Stannus "  whom  you 
recommend  in  it  for  a  Commission  in  the 
Argyllshire  Militia.  Ever  since  I  got  the 
Regiment  it  has  been  my  endeavour  to  make 
it  as  much  an  Argyllshire  Regiment  as  I  could, 
and  to  induce  the  Gentlemen  of  Argyllshire  to 
enter  into  it. 

With  this  view  you  may  easily  suppose  that 
I  could  never  think  of  giving  a  commission  in 
it  to  an  Irishman  who  has  no  immediate  con- 
nexion with  the  County  of  Argyll. 

In  consequence,  I  have  been  obliged  to  give 
a  decided  negative  to  Mr.  Stannus,  who,  I  am 
sorry  to  say,  took  the  trouble  of  travelling  150 
Irish  miles  to  deliver  your  Letter  which  he 
might  much  better  have  sent  by  the  Post. 

As  I  am  exceedingly  willing,  however,  to 
attend  to  any  recommendation  of  yours,  I  have 
told  the  young  man  that  I  shall  note  his  name, 
as  one  to  be  recommended  in  his  turn  for  a 
commission  in  the  Line,  which  is  a  much  better 
thing  for  him.  I  have  only  to  request  that  in 
future  you  will  be  cautious  to  recommend  for 
commission  in  this  Regiment  none  but  Gentle- 
men actualy  of  the  County  of  Argyll,  as  it 
subjects  me  to  the  disagreeable  necessity  of 
refusals.     I  am 

Your  Obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

VOL.   II.  10 


474     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

From  Mr.  Robert  McKindlay. 

My  Lord, 

This  day's  London  Courier  says  Dis- 
patches have  been  Received  from  Lord  Somerset 
dated  6th  and  7th  instant,  with  the  intelligence 
of  Buonaparte  having  landed  at  the  Head  of 
about  1000  Men  between  Frejus  and  Antibes, 
on  the  3rd  and  4th.  Marshal  McDonald  and 
Gen'  St.  Cyr  had  been  sent  to  Command  the 
troops  who  were  to  be  opposed  to  him.  The 
most  perfect  tranquility  prevailed  at  Paris. 
Forgive  the  freedom  I  have  taken,  and  Believe 
me  to  be,  My  Lord, 
Your  Lordship's  Very  Humble  Servant, 

RoBT.  McKindlay. 

Helensburgh  Post  Office, 
March  Uth,  1815. 

Lord  John  Campbell  to  Mr.  Robert  Campbell. 

29,  Upper  Brooke  Street, 
June  ISth,  1816. 

Sir, 

Lord  Frederick  Campbell  died  at  his 
House  in  Queen  Street  here,  at  J  past  Six 
o'clock  this  morning.     I  am 

Your  Obedt.  Servt., 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

RoBT.  Campbell,  Esq., 
Roseneath. 

From  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Ardincaple,  March  11th,  1830. 

My  Dear  Sir, 

I  return  herewith  the  Letters  which  you 
were  so  kind  as  to  send  to  me,  which  are  verv 


OFFICIAL    AND    FAMILY    LETTERS     475 

interesting,  and  I  am  glad  to  observe  sucli 
agreeable  accounts  of  your  Sons.  With  regard 
to  the  Reform  question,  The  Duke  and  myself 
are  on  diametricaly  opposite  sides,  I  considering 
my  Lord  John  Russell's  Bills  as  Mixtures  of 
Tyranny  and  Radicalism,  likely  to  do  serious 
and  lasting  injury  to  the  British  Constitution, 
and  my  Brother  looking  upon  them  as  jMaster- 
pieces  of  Political  Wisdom,  calculated  to  pre- 
serve and  invigorate  that  Constitution  which  I 
think  likely  to  suffer  so  much  injury  if  they 
are  permitted  to  pass  into  Laws. 

Upon  so  momentous  a  question,  it  becomes 
every  man  to  come  boldly  forward  and  give 
his  decided  opinion  upon  the  Measures  in 
agitation,  whatever  it  may  be,  and  I  hope  that 
your  Nephew  will  do  so  upon  the  occasion  of 
the  intended  Meeting  at  Dunbarton  on  the 
28th  Inst.,  and  I  shall  be  very  much  obliged 
to  you  if  you  will  write  a  few  Lines  to  him,  to 
attend,  whatever  way  he  may  think  proper  to 
vote  on  that  day.     I  am, 

Sincerely  yours, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  Mr.  Robert  Campbell. 

Ardincaple,  Sunday  evening. 

[March,   1831.] 

Dear  Sir, 

I  return  Mr.  Matherson's  Letter,  and 
although  I  am  not  perhaps  quite  so  good  a 
Tory  as  he  is,  I  very  much  agree  with  him  in 
what  he  says  of  Mr.  Brougham,  whom  I  con- 
sider, notwithstanding  his  undoubted  talents, 
to  be  the  worst  possible  man  for  a  Lord  Chan- 
cellor.    I   have  received   this   morning   a   copy 


476     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  the  Scotch  Reform  Bill,  and  a  more  odious 
piece  of  Tyrannical  Legislation  never  issued 
from  the  Star  Chamber.     I  am 

Sincerely  yours, 
J.  D.  Campbell. 


George  6th  Duke  of  Argyll  to  Lome  Campbell, 

ROSNEATH,    HeLENSBUBGH,    N.B. 

Alondaij. 

Dear  Sir, 

You  will  be  glad  to  hear  that  the  Com- 
mittee  of   the   House   of   Commons   have   come 
to  a  Resolution  that  it  is  ^?^expedient  to  make 
any  alteration  in  the  Currency  of  Scotland. 
I  am,  Dear  Sir, 

Yr.  H'ble.  Svt., 

Argyll. 


I  IKI.D-MARSHAI.    JOHN    CAMI'UKM.,     1)1  KK    OF    AKfJYLL 

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LORD   JOHN   CAMPBELL 

LoKD  John  Campbell,  referred  to  in  the  pre- 
ceding letters,  was  born  in  the  seventies  of 
the  eighteenth  century  and  died  in  1848.  I 
give  a  drawing  of  him  by  Edridge,  taken 
when  he  was  a  young  officer  in  the  Guards. 
He  greatly  loved  the  service,  and  it  was  a 
bitter  disappointment  to  him  that  he  was 
compelled  to  leave  it  after  suffering  from  illness 
contracted  during  the  unfortunate  campaign 
in  Holland.  He  became  Member  of  Parliament 
for  Dunbartonshire,  and  travelled  much  abroad. 
It  was  during  one  of  these  sojourns  on  the 
Continent  that  he  narrowly  escaped  capture  by 
Napoleon's  orders,  being  obliged  to  hide  in 
disguise  in  a  wood  before  he  could  be  guided 
across  the  countrv  on  foot  over  the  Swiss  frontier. 
His  tastes  inclined  him  to  mechanics  and  scientific 
inquiry,  and  the  acquaintance  he  made  with  M. 
de  Saussure  began  with  a  desire  to  know  the  son 
of  the  man  who  was  always  at  work  on  experi- 
ments connected  with  physical  science.  Before 
Alpine  climbing  had  become  a  passion  with 
travellers,  the  man  who  first  ascended  Mont 
Blanc  was  looked  upon  as  a  wonder  and  as  a 
foremost  citizen  of  Geneva.  I  give  later  on 
some  of  young  De  Saussure's  letters  :  Lord 
John  had  persuaded  him  to  pay  a  visit  to 
Scotland,  where  mountain  climbing,  observa- 
tions of  atmospheric  pressure,  and  also  geology, 

477 


478     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

especially  in  regard  to  its  evidence  on  prehistoric 
volcanoes,  had  occupied  him  very  happily.  Like 
his  father  he  was  devoted  to  science,  and  his 
letters  complete  the  picture  of  the  Geneva 
society  of  an  interesting  time. 

As  a  country  gentleman  Lord  John  Campbell 
showed  the  greatest  kindness  and  regard  for  all 
those  living  on  his  estates,  and  managed  to  check 
the  ruin  which  a  too  generous  policy  of  the  making 
of  small  holdings  by  the  breaking  up  of  farms  had 
occasioned.  Rents  had  gone  down  to  zero,  and 
starvation  stared  the  people  on  the  Argyll  estates 
in  the  face,  in  consequence  of  the  admission  of 
men  of  no  capital  to  occupy  small  areas  of  poor 
soil.  The  end  of  this  benevolent  experiment 
brought  all  concerned  to  hopeless  poverty.  Pe- 
titions from  the  poor  people  who  had  thus  been 
allowed  to  follow  their  own  foolish  desires  came 
to  him,  begging  for  help  to  emigrate.  He  had  to 
raise  large  sums  of  money  to  meet  their  requests, 
money  on  which  interest  has  still  to  be  paid, 
for  it  has  been  impossible  to  wipe  off  the  loans. 
As  this  matter  is  very  instructive  now  when 
new  sentimentalists  wish  to  repeat  the  small- 
holdings experiment,  I  quote  the  Petition  which 
best  shows  the  situation.  It  is  from  825  persons, 
crofters,  cottars,  and  paupers  being  all  repre- 
sented. It  must  be  remembered  they  had  the 
advantage  of  Protection. 

The  Petition   of  the  Undersigned  Cottars 

AND  Small  Crofters  on  the  Island  of 

Tyree, 

Humbly  sheweth, 

That   since   the   making   of  kelp   ceased, 
and  particularly  since  the  failure  of  the  potato 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  479 

crop,  the  inhabitants  of  this  island  have  been 
in  a  state  of  great  destitution  ;  and,  were  it 
not  for  the  benevolence  of  the  proprietor,  and 
the  aid  afforded  by  the  relief  board,  they  would 
inevitably  have  starved.  That  hitherto  they 
have  been  employed  by  the  proprietor  at 
drainage  and  other  works,  during  the  winter 
and  spring  months,  before  the  land  was  cropped, 
and  during  the  summer  they  were  supported 
by  the  funds  of  the  relief  board.  That  this 
latter  resource  being  now  at  an  end,  your 
petitioners'  prospects,  on  looking  forward  to 
the  ensuing  summer,  are  in  the  extreme  dismal, 
and  the  more  so,  as  the  only  prospect  of  ultimate 
relief  to  which  they  so  fondly  cling  is  denied 
them — that  of  emigration — whicli  your  peti- 
tioners neglected  to  take  advantage  of  while 
in  their  power,  probably  supposing  that  the 
relief  funds  were  to  last,  or  that  the  potato 
would  be  restored.  That,  to  add  to  their 
further  grievance,  your  petitioners  are  led  to 
understand  that  those  adverse  to  emigration 
from  the  West  Highlands  are  using  every 
possible  means  to  prevent  it,  and  that  state- 
ments are  made  publicly  that  the  poor  can  be 
supported  by  employing  them  in  the  improve- 
ment of  waste  land.  Those  who  advocate 
such  are  certainly  actuated  by  other  motives 
save  that  of  philanthropy,  and  display  the 
grossest  ignorance  as  to  the  resources  of  the 
country,  particularly  as  regards  this  isolated 
island,  where  there  is  no  fuel,  and  not  an  inch 
of  waste  land  which  the  inhabitants  could  not 
drain  and  trench  in  a  few  months.  That  your 
petitioners  would  now  most  earnestly  request, 
that  if  possessed  of  the  bowels  of  compassion, 
such  as  were  your  forefathers,  or  value  the  lives 


480     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  your  countrymen,  you  will  not  credit  the 
statement  of  those  inimical  to  our  best  interest, 
but  examine  individually  into  our  circumstances 
and  the  condition  of  the  island,  when  they  have 
no  doubt  you  will  have  sufficient  proof  afforded 
of  the  fallacy  of  such  statements,  and  the 
injury  and  cruelty  done  us  by  such  misrepre- 
sentations, which  may  perhaps  be  the  means 
of  the  Duke's  withholding  his  bounty,  and 
depriving  us  of  the  power  of  participating  in 
the  enjoyments  and  comforts,  they  are  from 
day  to  day  informed,  their  friends  in  Canada 
enjoy  to  such  an  extent. 

May  it  therefore  please  your  honour  to  take 
the  miserable  condition  of  your  petitioners  into 
consideration,  and  use  your  influence  with  Her 
Majesty's  Government,  or  His  Grace  the  Duke 
of  Argyll,  to  provide  for  them  the  means  of 
emigrating. 

An  ounce  of  experience  is  worth  a  ton  of 
theory.  Small  farms  are  possible  with  capital ; 
"  crofts  "  arc  not  in  the  Western  Hebrides. 
Crofters  must  be  dependent  on  outside  help ; 
crofts  do  not  suffice  for  maintenance. 

Lord  John  Campbell  and  Cholera. 

Mr.  J.  B.  Atlay,  in  his  Life  of  Dr.  Acland, 
quotes  a  letter  from  Anne  Cunningham,  Dowager 
Duchess  of  Argyll :  "  Regarding  the  cholera  as 
it  came  to  us  in  the  West  of  Scotland  in  1832. 
Its  approach  was  so  dreaded.  I  was  just  one 
year  married  and  had  the  anxious  care  of  three 
very  delicate  children.  .  .  ,  We  were  sadly  per- 
plexed when  the  Pestilence  appeared  at  Gates- 
head, and  often  spoke  of  the  horror  of  seeing 
it  in  the  nursery.  .  .  .  When  the  disease  did 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  481 

actually  come,  my  surprise  was  to  find  that 
neither  my  dear  husband  or  myself  were  really 
afraid.  The  sound  of  its  ravages  200  miles 
off  at  Gateshead  was  so  much  more  fearful 
than  when  we  were  told  it  was  at  Helensbiu'gh. 
Lord  John  Campbell  had  laid  up  all  kinds  of 
stores,  and  built  a  large  oven  and  bakehouse, 
so  that  we  should  not  go  to  the  village  to  buy 
bread,  but  shut  up  the  gates  of  Ardencaple  until 
the  storm  was  past.  None  of  these  precautions 
were  ever  used.  When  he  found  that  the 
gentlemen  in  the  neighbourhood  were  afraid, 
and  would  not  move  as  to  a  Board  of  Health, 
he  came  out  of  his  den.  Every  day  at  11  o'clock 
he  was  presiding  at  a  Board  of  Health,  which 
met  at  his  own  lodge  gate-house.  He  saw  Dr. 
Fergusson,  whom  he  appointed  and  paid,  and 
heard  from  him  all  the  wants  and  wishes, 
distributed  medicine  and  flannels  and  hot-water 
bottles  himself,  without  the  usual  care  of  wearing 
camphor  or  any  thing  else  to  hinder  infection. 

"  Quite  fearless  as  regards  himself — but  not 
as  to  his  children,  for  he  never  saw  them  after 
his  Board  meeting  without  a  change  of  clothes. 
At  the  end  of  three  months  there  had  only  been 
9  cases  and  6  deaths — the  doctor  was  no  longer 
excluded  from  the  Castle,  and  all  the  neigh- 
bours were  astonished  at  the  risk  they  said 
Lord  John  had  run.  Lord  John  Campbell  saw 
it  otherwise.  He  often  said  that  it  was  of  God 
that  he  was  able  to  do  the  service  that  he  did. 

"  I  remember  in  1849  Dr.  Sutherland  coming 
to  Helensburgh.  There  was  a  damp  very  peculiar 
fog.  He  foretold  the  approach  of  cholera,  but 
was  not  believed.  That  very  evening  a  gentle- 
man in  a  healthy  situation  above  the  town  of 
Helensburgh  was  the  first  attacked  and  died." 


LETTERS  FROM  VIRGINIA  FROM  GEORGE 
WASHINGTON  AND  OTHERS 

1768-1789 

Letter  from  General  George  Washington,  asking 
schoolmaster  for  leave  for  young  Custis.* 

Mount  Veknox, 

19'A  Augt,  1768, 

Rev°  Sir, 

Your  letter  to  the  Rev*^  M""  Addison 
was  sent  to  him  immediately  upon  its  getting 
to  my  hands.  Inclosed  you  will  receive  an 
answer  to  it.  Being  confined  to  company  till 
this  moment,  I  mean  for  two  or  three  days  past, 
and  the  Bearer  obliged  to  depart  (in  order  to 
meet  us  in  time  at  my  Brother's  in  Stafford),  I 
have  only  time  to  request  the  favour  of  you 
to  permit  Master  Custis  to  meet  us  there  also 
to-morrow  (that  is  Saturday),  and  if  you  think 
it  will  be  of  no  great  prejudice  to  him,  to  give 
him  the  further  indulgence  of  accompanying  us 
to  Westmoreland  where  we  shall  stay  (I  expect) 
about  8  or  10  days. 

Very  respectfully,  I  remain,  Rev*^  Sir, 
Y^  most  obed'  H'^^  Serv* 

G^  Washington. 

*  Washington's  step-son. 
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LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA         483 


Lord  John  CampbelVs  mother  had  property  in 
Virginia,  and  this  letter  speaks  of  Warner 
Washington  and  of  American  Colonial  affairs. 

Fredricksburo,  Vir*. 

24"'  Dec'-,   1786. 

My  dear  Sir, 

I  did  myself  the  pleasure  of  writing  M'' 
Glassell  the  23^^  Ult''  by  the  John  &  Bella  of 
Liverpool,  and  agreeably  to  my  intention  therein 
express'd,  I  take  the  opportunity  of  the  Boyd's 
sailing  to  write  you  fully.  Your  long  lookd 
for  letter  of  the  18^''  August  to  the  address  of 
M'  Campbell  &  myself  came  to  hands  a  few 
days  ago.  I  do  not  Wonder  at  y'  being  at  a 
loss,  what  instructions  to  give  or  in  what  manner 
to  dispose  of  your  property  in  this  Country. 
Were  you  on  the  Spot  you  woud  be  equally 
embarrass'd.  Our  Assembly  seems  more  and 
more  disposed  to  oppress  those  unfortunate 
men  Who  returned  here  under  the  faith  of  the 
treaty  of  Peace  to  gather  the  Wrecks  of  their 
shattered  Fortunes.  A  Bill  has  pass'd  the 
lower  House  of  Assembly,  a  copy  of  which  I 
enclose,  which  will  clearly  point  out  to  you  the 
spirit  of  the  times.  It  is  evidently  calculated 
to  throw  stronger  Barriers  if  there  was  need 
for  any  in  tlie  way  of  collecting  British  debts, 
and  to  expel  from  the  community  a  set  of 
worthy  men  who  are  only  obnoxious  because 
of   their  claims. 

I  think  there  is  little  risk  of  any  act  being 
made  this  Session  for  the  confiscation  of  British 
property.  It  was  much  talk'd  of  last  Spring  & 
Summer,  but  now  I  don't  hear  a  word  of  it.  So 
that  there  will  be  no  necessity  of  conveying  your 


484     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

property  here  to  me.  It  is  a  step  that  should  be 
avoided  unless  such  a  law  is  like  to  pass.  All 
men's  lives  are  precarious,  and  in  the  event  of 
my  death  without  a  Will  the  whole  would  revert 
to  the  commonwealth.  If  I  did  make  a  Will 
I  could  not  bequeath  any  real  property  to  you 
a  Foreigner,  Nor  could  any  Bond  I  might  give 
you  operate  against  my  supposed  Estate,  after 
my  decease ;  because  it  would  be  considered 
a  British  claim.  It  is  true  I  might  will  all 
the  real  property  in  my  possession  to  a  friend 
in  Trust  to  dispose  of  for  j^our  Account,  but 
here  we  might  be  both  deceived  &  you  at 
last  duped  out  of  all.  Besides  if  it  can  be 
supposed  for  a  moment,  that  if  after  such  a 
conveyance  is  made,  I  shoud  turn  Rascal,  the 
Laws  notwithstanding  my  Bond  would  protect 
me  in  the  vilainy. 

With  respect  to  your  property  in  Fredricks- 
burg,  the  accounts  I  have  formerly  given  you 
of  it  are  pretty  Just.  It  is  I  believe  perfectly 
vague  to  talk  of  selling  your  Dwelling  House, 
Ware  house  &  their  Appendages  even  on  credit 
for  their  value — and  were  they  to  be  sold  at 
public  Sale  they  would  not  bring  1/4  of  the  sum. 
In  this  case  what  to  advise  you  to  I  know  not, 
but  after  Being  informd  of  every  circumstance 
your  own  better  Judgement  may  perhaps  point 
out  some  eligible  plan,  which  should  be  formed 
soon,  and  speedily  decided.  In  a  former  letter  I 
told  you  that  the  South  end  of  your  dwelling 
House  was  rented  at  £50  p.  ann.,  a  part  of  the 
W^are  house  at  £30,  and  the  other  end  of  the 
Inspectors'  Room  at  £25.  So  they  remain,  but  as 
yet  we  have  fingered  no  money  from  any  of  them. 
It  is  all  safe  however.  £2600  Hhds  Tob°  were 
Ship'd  from   the   Fred^  Warehouses   this   year, 


LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA         485 

which  at  1/G  each  is  £195,  of  which  £45  only 
Remaind  due  after  paying  for  tlic  Warehouse 
Built  since  the  War,  and  near  the  whole  of 
this  went  to  pay  the  Tax  on  shipping  the  58 
Hhds  per  the  Venus  which  is  at  13/.  This  part 
of  your  Estate  has  hitherto  been  unproductive 
&  will  be  so  for  another  year,  because  the  court 
of  Spotsylvania  have,  on  the  petition  of  the 
Inspectors,  order'd  us  to  build  two  additional 
Warehouses,  which  order  being  absolute,  I  liave 
been  obliged  to  comply,  and  there  are  men 
now  employ'd  about  them. 

The  demands  against  you  in  this  country  (a  list 
of  which  is  added)  will  prevent  our  making  such 
Remittances  on  your  account  as  you  might  expect. 
Not  a  Shilling  of  your  debts  have  been  received 
since  my  last  except  £25,  due  by  M"*  Champe,  the 
present  Wife  of  Col'  Willis,  who  paid  the  principal 
but  would  allow  no  Interest.  I  was  lately  over 
the  Ridge  at  Warner  Washington's.  He  pleads 
poverty.  Poor  he  is  not,  for  he  makes  100 
Hhds  Tob"  every  year,  but  in  place  of  paying 
his  just  debts  he  squanders  the  whole  in  profuse 
living.  I  believe  I  can  get  1100  acres  of 
land  from  him  in  Culpepper  at  £25  per  hundred, 
but  as  you  cannot  hold  any  such  property, 
and  the  taking  a  conveyance  in  my  own  name 
being  a  step  that  perhaps  might  be  displeasing 
to  you,  I  have  done  nothing  decisive.  I  have 
offers  of  other  lands,  but  without  your  positive 
Instructions  I  shall  not  venture  to  receive  them. 
I  need  make  no  comment  on  British  debts. 
You  have  formed  a  Just  opinion  of  them — and 
to  entertain  the  hope  of  receiving  any  sum, 
adequate  even  to  the  expence  of  travelling, 
is  vain ;  for  my  own  part  I  think  it  will  be 
throwing  money  away,  either  to  attend  County 


486     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Courts  or  go  to  your  debtors'  houses  where  they 
hve  at  a  distance. 

I  enclose  you  a  letter  from  your  Brother, 
the  contents  of  which  you'll  perceive  from  its 
being  open  I  am  acquainted  with.  It  will 
serve  chiefly  to  shew  you  his  upright  intentions. 
He  talks  of  selling  the  Plantation  Negroes  &c 
as  a  matter  of  no  difficulty ;  were  he  to  to  [sic] 
tr}^  to  put  it  in  practice,  perhaps  he  might  be 
convinced  of  his  mistake.  A  property  of  that 
value  cannot  be  turned  into  ready  money,  and 
to  sell  it  on  Credit  to  any  man  would  be  acting 
unwisely.  For  him  to  throw  it  up  to  your 
Attorneys,  who  are  unacquainted  with  the 
management  of  it,  would  be  equally  so.  The 
mode  of  settlement  therefore  which  in  my 
Idea  would  be  most  beneficial  to  you  both, 
would  be  to  let  him  have  the  plantation  Negroes 
&c  at  a  fair  price,  and  on  a  statement  of  your 
Ace'*'  to  take  his  Bond  for  the  Balance  due 
You  with  Interest  till  discharged.  Your  Brother 
to  be  sure  enjoys  but  an  indifferent  state  of 
health  ;  but  this  is  the  fault  of  his  constitution, 
not  of  the  climate.  His  other  reasons  for 
quitting  Virginia  are  by  no  means  weighty. 

This  I  again  beg  leave  to  repeat,  that  it  will 
be  your  Interest  that  Your  Brother  become 
the  purchaser  of  the  Culpepper  Plantation  Ne- 
groes &c.  Whatever  are  your  final  determina- 
tions please  be  speedy  in  communicating  them. 
Should  y"^  Brother  die,  those  who  he  would 
Appoint  his  Executors  would  laugh  at  your 
Representatives.  I  know  I  am  secretly  hated 
by  those  people,  who  consider  me  as  a  barier 
to  a  reconciliation  between  you  and  y"  Brother. 
They  appear  to  know  the  whole  story.  Indeed 
I  am  accused  by  them  of  Fomenting  the  differ- 


LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA        487 

ence.  This  injurious  aspersion  gives  me  no 
uneasiness.  The  rectitude  of  my  intentions, 
and  a  clear  conscience  in  the  matter,  enables 
me  to  treat  those  who  think  so  basely  of  me  as 
they  deserve.  Your  Brother  I  imagine  knows 
better,  and  from  the  cordiallity  that  subsists 
between  us,  I  am  certain  he  entertains  no 
such  suspicions.  As  to  the  Business  in  which 
we  are  engaged,  if  it  is  curtaild  or  given  up 
I  shall  be  thrown  idle,  and  an  idle  inactive 
life  is  what  I  cannot  bear  the  thoughts  of ;  to 
continue  our  Business,  can  at  no  rate  prove 
injurious.  It  is  now  fairly  formed  and  daily 
growing,  and  to  relinquish  it  now  would  be 
effectually  losing  a  set  of  good  Customers  which 
it  has  cost  us  some  pains  to  acquire. 

Our  back  store  is  an  object  well  worthy  atten- 
tion. All  the  honest  dutch  in  that  neighbourhood 
supply  themselves  from  it,  and  it  yeilds  twice 
the  ready  money  that  y"  Fred^  Store  does  ;  the 
Cash  Sales  there  will  nearly  average  £80  per 
month,  besides  great  quantities  of  loose  Tob", 
wheat  &c.  Our  remittances  this  Spring  on  the 
Company's  ace*  I  am  hopeful  will  satisfy  you. 
In  consequence  of  a  consignment  from  a  friend 
in  Jamaica,  I  have  been  paid  the  Balance 
due  me  by  Mess"^  Sinclair  &  Bannatyne, 
£124  12.'?.  5ld.,  for  I  gave  M'  Brown,  who  was 
the  consignee,  an  order  for  the  Bal.  which  he 
received  last  August.  In  consequence  of  a  con- 
signment of  a  quantity  of  Herrings,  Gin  &c  to 
Martha  Brae  in  Jamaica  previous  to  my  leaving 
that  Island,  I  have  been  a  considerable  Sufferer. 
The  herrings  being  damaged  on  the  passage 
round  were  sold  to  a  loss,  and  contrary  to  my 
instructions  on  credit,  the  greatest  part  which 
being    still    uncollected,    is    in    my    A/C,    after 


488     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

giving  me  Credit  for  the  Amount  of  the  Sales, 
charged  to  my  debit.  I  had  some  notion  in 
the  summer  of  going  down  to  Jam%  which  I 
was  induced  to  think  of  as  I  coud  have  had  a 
considerable  consignment  and  was  anxious  to 
have  Bal.  due  me  there  Remitted.  On  reflecting 
however  on  the  Situation  of  y""  property  here 
I  saw  the  impropriety  of  leaving  it  &  conse- 
quently gave  out  the  intended  trip. 

I  enclose  you  sundry  Papers,  but  as  M""  An- 
derson will  forward  them  by  a  private  hand  to 
Edinburgh  they  will  cost  little  postage.  I  will 
make  Mess"^  L.  C.  «&;  C"  a  Remittance  on  my 
own  Ace*  When  the  comp''  make  their  Spring 
Shipment.  This  letter  is  wrote  in  a  great  Hurry, 
as  I  am  just  come  down  from  Culpepper  (where 
I  resided  all  Summer)  and  the  last  opportunity 
down  to  the  Boy'd  is  about  to  set  out.  I  fully 
intended  to  have  done  myself  the  honor  of 
writing  M"^  Glassell  by  this  vessel,  but  my  time 
is  short.  I  will  however  make  it  up  by  next 
Ship,  by  writing  both  to  you  and  her. 

M""  Campbell  is  by  no  means  included  in  the 
new  citizens  Bill,  nor  is  there  any  necessity  for 
a  new  power  of  Atty.  If  you  think  there  is. 
Gen'  Stevens  &  M"  Somerville  are  permanent, 
proper  people  to  be  included  in  it ;  and  they 
are  men  of  Honor,  and  men  of  Business  Warmly 
attachd  to  your  Interest.  You  know  M""  Camp- 
bell as  well  or  perhaps  better  than  myself, 
and  I  shoud  be  sorry  were  he  to  be  withdrawn 
from  the  present  Connection  ;  I  am  well  satisfied 
with  him  as  a  partner,  and  as  he  spent  his 
youth  in  your  service  it  will  I  daresay  give 
you  pleasure,  if  thro'  your  means  he  can  acquire 
a  small  independence.  I  wish  you  may  see  CoP 
M'^Williams  for  sake  of  information,  but   from 


LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA        489 

what  I  have  gathered  lately,  he  has  injured  his 
affairs  by  imprudently  Gaming,  which  will 
effectually  prevent  him  from  being  in  a  situation 
to  pay  for  your  property  here.  This  hint  I 
give  that  you  may  be  more  guarded. 

I  rejoice  to  hear  you  have  hopes  of  getting 
over  your  Complaints.  I  hope  there  is  yet 
much  health  and  happiness  in  Store  for  you.  It 
mortifies  me  extremely  that  the  situation  of  this 
country  puts  it  out  of  my  power,  to  be  more 
serviceable  in  your  affairs  ;  I  had  formed  the 
agreeable  hopes  of  shewing  my  Unbounded  grati- 
tude and  Affection  to  my  lienefactor,  by  my 
unwearied  attention  to  his  Business  &  Interest, 
but  this  the  Rascality  of  Mankind  puts  out 
of  my  reach.  I  will  write  you  frequently  during 
this  Winter,  giving  you  any  intelligence  that 
occurs  which  I  may  have  Now  omitted.  I  owe 
a  great  deal  to  many  of  Y'  friends  here  for 
their  attention  &  Civilities.  I  beg  you  will 
present  my  best  comp'  to  M"  Glassell  and  Y" 
friends  at  Letham  &  ¥A\  and  I  remain  with  due 
Respect  &  Sincere  Affection,  Mv  Dear  Sir, 

Y'"obliged"^h'"^  Serv' 

W  Glassell. 

John  Glassell,  Esq^^. 


Letter  from  William  Glassell  from  Fredrichshiir^, 
Virginia^  to  the  future  Wife  of  the  7th  Duke 
(Lord  John  Campbell),  mentioning  Washing- 
ton  family. 

Friday,  \Alh  August,  1789. 

My  dear  ^Iadam, 

I  wrote  you  fully  in  reply  to  yours  of 
27th  February  and  Gth  March,  and  am  now  to 
acknowledge   receipt   of   your   further   esteem'd 

VOL.   II.  11 


490     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

favour  of  9tli  May,  which  was  doubly  acceptable 
as  it  contained  the  agreeable  tidings  of  Mr.  G.'s 
recovery  and  of  your  being  in  tolerable  health. 
I  beg  leave  to  return  you  my  most  grateful 
thanks  for  writing  me  so  punctually,  and  beg 
you'll  continue  to  do  so  as  often  as  your  leisure 
and  opportunity  permit.  I  enjoy  perfect  health 
tho'  the  summer  has  been  aggressively  warm 
and  rather  sickly.  Mr.  Campbell  was  nearly 
carried  off.  My  last  to  Mr.  G.  were  of  6th  and 
14th  June ;  please  to  inform  him  his  kind  and 
salutary  admonitions  contain'd  in  your  last 
shall  have  their  proper  influence,  and  that  the 
reason  of  my  not  writing  to  him  lately  and  by 
this  conveyance,  was  my  being  closely  engaged 
for  a  month  past  in  Winding  up  the  affairs  of 
G.  C.  &  Co.  both  in  Culpeper  and  this  place, 
which  is  now  effected,  and  that  not  having  yet 
come  to  a  final  close  with  Mr.  Cr.  about  his 
wages,  I  do  not  wish  to  write  till  I  can  at  once 
give  liim  a  full  account  of  all  things.  Mr. 
Campbell  and  myself  are  now  separated.  The 
stock  of  goods  on  hand  were  fairly  and  pro- 
portionately divided,  and  the  managing  their 
affairs  vested  in  me.  As  I  had  but  few  goods 
left  in  this  store,  I  have  sent  the  whole  to 
Culpeper  and  shut  up  here  till  the  Fall  goods 
arrive;  besides  there  is  little  doing  here  during 
this  and  the  ensuing  month  in  town,  which 
time  I  mean  to  appropriate  in  looking  after 
Mr.  G.'s  old  debtors. 

To-morrow  I  proceed  for  Culpeper  quarterly 
Court,  from  whence  I  shall  make  a  long  tour 
over  the  ridge  to  the  back  Counties  where 
there  are  many  weighty  sums  due,  and  as  it 
will  be  the  end  of  month  before  I  return  it 
will  be  out  of  my  power  to  write  to  Mr.   G. 


LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA         491 

before  the  sailing  of  the  October  Packet.  The 
new  Government  is  fast  acquiring  energy,  and 
such  is  my  confidence  in  its  being  put  into  full 
operation,  I  have  ventured  to  bring  suits  for 
some  of  the  large  debts,  such  as  Warner  Wash- 
ington's, &c.  In  short,  inform  Mr.  Glassell,  I 
shall  do  my  duty  and  take  every  step  to  acquit 
myself  to  his  satisfaction  ;  I  have  advice  of  all 
my  orders  being  complied  with. 

I  am  much  obliged  to  i\Irs.  Cathcart  for  her 
kind  remembrance  of  me ;  I  beg  you  will  present 
my  respectful  compliments  to  her.  Mr.  &  Mrs. 
Fitzhugh  express  the  highest  gratitude  for  the 
benevolent  attention  shewn  their  son  by  you 
and  Mrs.  Cathcart.  Mrs.  F.  presents  her  Com- 
pliments to  you  both  and  requests  you'll  have 
the  picture  set  in  gold  so  as  to  be  worn  as  a 
bracelet  round  the  arm.  No  vessel  has  sail'd 
from  this  river  for  Glasgow,  otherwise  the  Silver 
flaggon  &  Strainer  with  my  Journal  would  have 
been  sent  you  ;  I  will  however  forward  them 
by  the  Williamson,  which  will  sail  in  November 
for  London,  from  whence  they  can  be  readily 
convey 'd  by  water  to  Leith.  The  Homminy 
shall  not  be  forgotten.  I  had  a  letter  a  few 
days  ago  from  Mr.  Drinkwater,  and  am  truly 
sorry  to  hear  of  the  death  of  his  amiable  wife, 
Mrs.  Drinkwater.  It  gives  me  pleasure  to  hear 
of  the  welfare  of  your  friends  at  Lethjim  and 
Edin'r.  Pray  remember  me  respectfully  to 
them.  I  hope  Mr.  G.  will  accept  my  apology 
for  not  writing  to  him.  That  you  may  both 
long  enjoy  health  and  happiness  is  the  sincere 
wish  of,  my  dear  Madam, 

Yr.  mt.  aff.  &  obliged 

W.  G. 


492     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Friday,   \Uh  Novr.,   1789. 

My  dear  Madam, 

I  wrote  you  fully  the  14th  August  last 
of  which  the  foregoing  is  a  copy.  This  I  think 
necessary  to  transmit  as  the  original  went  by 
an  uncertain  conveyance  to  James  River.  I 
am  happy  to  acknowledge  receit  of  your  very 
acceptable  letters  of  1st  July  from  Longniddry 
and  3rd  August  from  Torthorwald.  Your  good- 
ness in  writing  me  so  frequently  lays  me  under 
the  highest  obligations ;  I  hope  neither  you 
or  Mr.  G.  will  accuse  me  of  neglect  on  acct. 
of  my  long  silence.  I  was  six  weeks  absent 
on  my  tour  to  the  back  Country,  and  since 
my  return  my  time  has  been  so  completely 
arranging  a  new  business  that  many  conveyances 
to  Britain  have  escaped  me.  As  I  have  wrote 
fully  to  Mr.  Glassell  by  this  vessel  a  particular 
reply  to  your  last  esteemed  favor  is  rendered 
unnecessary. 

This  fall  has  been  sickly  throughout  the 
United  States.  The  influenza  has  been  very 
prevalent  every  where.  Mr.  Campbell  was 
attack'd  with  it,  accompanied  by  a  Pleurisy 
and  Nervous  fever,  which  carried  him  off  after 
only  seven  days'  confinement.  I  visited  him 
during  his  illness  ;  he  never  suspected  danger 
till  within  a  few  hours  of  his  death.  On  this 
'twere  needless  to  make  any  comment.  Daily 
experience  shews  the  uncertainty  of  human  life, 
and  how  necessary  it  is  for  every  man,  par- 
ticularly those  who  are  entrusted  with  the 
property  of  others,  to  have  his  affairs  in  the 
best  and  clearest  train.  For  my  own  part,  I 
have  enjoyed  a  uncommon  share  of  health. 
Exercise  and  temperance  accord  perfectly  with 


LETTERS    FROM    VIRGINIA         493 

my  constitution.  I  have  just  received  a  letter 
from  Dr.  James  Law,  and  tho'  time  will  not 
allow  to  avail  myself  of  this  opportunity  of 
writing  to  him  I  shall  not  fail  to  cultivate  his 
correspondence.  It  is  an  object  with  me  to 
acquire  the  friendship  of  all  such  worthy  char- 
acters. His  attention  to  his  little  charge  Tom 
Fitzhugh  gives  me  an  high  opinion  of  his  bene- 
volence. AH  Mr.  G.'s  old  friends  here  are  still 
in  life  except  The  old  Lady  Washington,  who 
died  about  three  months  ago. 

Of  late  no  homeward-bound  vessel  has  sailed 
for  Glasgow  ;  of  consequence  I  have  been  dis- 
appointed in  forwarding  many  little  articles  which 
were  intended,  but  by  the  Williamson  of  London 
they  shall  all  be  sent.  You  make  no  mention 
of  your  friends  at  Letham  and  Ed'r.  in  your 
late  letters.  I  hope  they  are  all  well  and 
request  you  to  present  my  best  Compliments 
to  them.  I  am  glad  to  hear  you  intend  soon 
to  take  little  Mary  home  with  you,  and  hope 
she  will  do  credit  to  the  kind  care  you  are 
disposed  to  take  of  her.  Hereafter  both  you 
and  Mr.  G.  shall  hear  more  regularly  from 
me.  It  really  affords  me  the  truest  happiness 
to  find  that  his  health  continues  to  improve, 
and  the  greatest  favour  you  can  possibly  confer 
will  be  to  let  me  hear  as  often  from  Longniddry 
as  your  convenience  will  allow.  I  once  more 
make  cordial  acknowledgement  for  your  kindness 
in  writing  me  so  punctually,  and  am  with  very 
high  respect  and  sincere  affection,  my  dear 
Madam, 

Your  much  obliged  hble.   Serv. 

Wm.  Glassell. 


THE  EXPEDITION  TO  HOLLAND  IN  1799 


Letters  from  Lord  John  Campbell  to  the  Duke 
of  Argyll. 

Barham  Downs,  August  5th,  '99. 

My  Dear  Father, 

We  received  orders  to  march  to  Sandwich 
to-morrow,  where  we  are  to  encamp  that  night 
and  embark  the  next  morning  on  board  ship. 
It  is  certainly  Holland  that  we  are  going  to 
attack,  as  we  are  only  to  take  ten  days'  provision 
with  us — so  much  we  are  to  take,  because  it  is 
supposed  the  enemy  will  have  driven  away  the 
cattle  from  the  sea  coast. 

The  men  assembled  here  amount  to  11,500, 
but  it  is  only  the  second  Brigade  of  Guards  con- 
sisting of  the  21st  Battns.  of  the  Coldstream 
and  third  Regts.  that  are  ordered  to  march  to- 
morrow ;  the  other  Regts.  will  embark  at  different 
places.  I  will  if  possible  write  to  you  again 
before  we  sail ;  if  not,  as  soon  as  the  first  dis- 
patches are  sent  Home.  With  Love  to  all, 
I  remain  your  affec^^ 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


On  board  the  Content  Transport 

in  the  Downs,  August  9th,  '99. 

My  Dear  Father, 

We  embarked  at  Ramsgate  the  day  before 
yesterday,  and  it  has  blown  so  hard  ever  since 

494 


THE   EXPEDITION   TO    HOLLAND    495 

that  it  is  only  this  moment  that  the  Captain 
would  allow  a  boat  to  be  sent  on  shore.  The 
1st  and  second  Briojade  of  Guards  are  all  em- 
barked, and  the  Regiments  of  the  Line  are 
expected  to  be  all  on  board  by  to-morrow  even- 
ing, after  which  it  is  supposed  we  shall  sail  the 
first  fair  wind.  The  common  oppinion  is  that 
we  are  to  land  at  Hamburgh,  but  of  course  this 
is  merely  conjecture. 

As  I  have  not  time  to  write  to  Charlotte  if  she 
is  not  with  you,  you  can  inclose  this  to  her. 
With  Love  to  all, 

I  remain  Your  affec^ 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Sand  Hills,  near  Helder, 
August  28th,  1799. 

My  Dear  Father, 

After  having  been  blown  about  in  the 
North  Sea  for  9  days  we  anchored  off  this  coast 
on  Wednesday  the  22nd  Inst.,  but  another  Gale 
of  wind  coming  on  we  Avere  again  driven  to  sea, 
and  could  not  again  Make  the  Land  till  the 
evening  of  the  26th,  by  which  Means  the  Enemy 
had  time  to  prepare  a  force  of  about  7,000, 
chiefly  Dutch.  We  Landed  yesterday  Morning 
at  daylight  under  cover  of  several  Gun  vessels. 
The  27th  Regt.  and  some  Companies  of  the 
Coldstream  succeeded  in  driving  the  Enemy 
from  the  Sand  Hills  next  the  Shore,  and  soon 
after  some  other  Regt.  of  the  line  with  the 
1st  Regt.  of  Guards  and  Grenadier  Battn. 
Got  into  action,  and  continued  to  drive  the 
Enemy  tho  slowly  along  the  ridge  of  Sand  Hills 
which  run  parralel  to  the  sea ;  they  did  not 
give  over  firing,  however,  till  about  4  o'clock  in 


496     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

the  afternoon,  when  they  retreated  towards 
Altemaar,  as  we  learnt  this  Morning  from  the 
deserters.  About  900  Men  Stationed  in  the 
Fort  near  Helder  evacuated  it  in  the  Night,  so 
that  Nothing  will  now  prevent  our  ships  from 
sailing  into  the  Texel  and  takeing  all  the  Dutch 
Ships,  amounting  to  ten  or  12  Sail  of  the  Line. 
The  Town  of  Helder  is  of  course  in  our  posses- 
sion. None  of  our  things  or  provisions  are  as 
yet  come  on  Shore,  as  the  Surf  runs  very  high  on 
the  beach,  but  they  will  be  all  Landed  to-morrow 
at  Helder.  The  Srd  Regt.  was  not  in  Action. 
The  Staff  as  you  will  see  by  the  Gazette  has 
suffered  pretty  severely.  You  must  excuse  this 
scrawl,  as  I  have  nothing  to  write  upon  but  my 
knee,  and  have  with  difficulty  obtained  a 
wretched  pen  from  a  Sergt.  With  Love  to  all, 
I  remain  your  affect. 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

As  soon  as  I  can  I  will  give  you  a  further 
account  of  our  proceedings. 

Heldee,  Aiigust  31st,  1799. 

We  have  been  stationery  ever  since  the  Action 
of  the  27th,  waiting  till  the  ships  could  come 
into  the  Texel  and  take  the  Dutch  Fleet,  which 
service  they  performed  last  night  or  early  this 
morning.  They  siu'rendered  without  fighting, 
but  I  have  not  yet  heard  the  number  of  men  of 
war  taken.  Our  Baggage  is  now  landing,  but 
we  are  only  allowed  to  take  a  small  portmanteau 
with  us  when  we  move ;  the  rest  of  the  Baggage 
is  to  be  given  in  to  Store  at  this  place.  No 
Tents  are  allowed  to  be  taken  even  for  the  Men ; 
we  have  lain  upon  the  ground  ever  since  the 
engagement,  and  the  greatest  part  of  us  without 


THE   EXPEDITION    TO   HOLLAND    497 

any  thing  to  cover  us.  I  have  been  hicky 
enough  the  last  two  nights  to  get  a  plaee  in 
Coll.  Coply's  Tent,  which  is  one  of  the  common 
Dutch  Soldiers'  Tents,  and  of  course  not  very 
good.  I  have  just  heard  that  we  are  to  move 
forwards  to-morrow ;  it  is  uncertain  whether  the 
Enemy  have  retreated  to  Altemaar  or  not,  but 
they  have  retreated  a  good  way,  and  a  party  of 
our  Cavalry  which  landed  this  morning  are  sent 
forward  to  observe  their  Motions. 

I  am  at  this  place  with  a  party  of  IMen  sent  to 
carry  the  Blankets,  Chatties,  etc.  of  the  Batta- 
lion to  the  place  where  they  are,  which  is  about 
six  miles  off.  I  am  Avriting  this  in  a  Coffee  room 
with  twenty  people  looking  over  me,  so  that  I 
can  add  no  more  at  present,  but  remain. 

Your  affec. 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Petten,  Sept.  llth,  1799. 

My  Dear  Father, 

The  Day  after  I  wrote  to  you  from 
Helder,  the  Army  marched,  and  took  up  a 
Position  having  their  right  in  front  of  this 
village,  which  is  close  to  the  sea,  and  their  left 
extended  to  the  Zuyder-Zee.  Ever  since  we 
arrived  we  have  been  throwing  up  works,  and 
strengthening  our  outposts  by  every  possible 
means,  notwithstanding  which  the  Enemy  yes- 
terday morning,  a  little  before  Day  break,  began 
to  attack  us  at  the  next  post  but  one  to  the  one 
in  front  of  this  village,  and  soon  after  the  attack 
became  general  along  our  whole  lines,  except  at 
this  post,  which  being  covered  by  a  Frigate  and 
two  Gun  Vessels,  obliged  the  Collumn  that 
advanced  against  it  to  retreat  before  they  could 


498     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

come  within  Musket  Shot,  and  from  the  Situation 
of   the    Ground   they    could   not   bring   up   any 
Cannon  ;    I  was  stationed  in  front  of  this  battery 
with   50  men  at  the  time  they  advanced,   but 
was  soon  called  in  to  make  room  for  our  Guns  to 
play  upon  them.     The  French  Grenadiers  who 
attacked  the  posts  upon  our  left  behaved  with 
the  greatest  bravery,   charging  up  to  the  very 
Muzzels  of  our  Guns  several  times  ;    our  men, 
however,  were  so  much  covered  by  a  Dyke  and 
the  works  they  had  thrown  up,  that  the  French, 
after  many  fruitless   attempts,  were  obliged  to 
retreat,   leaving  the  Ground  covered  with  their 
Dead  and  wounded  ;    of  course  we  do  not  know 
exactly  what  we  have  lost  as  yet,  but  I  am  told 
it  will  not  amount  to  200  killed  and  wounded, 
whilst  that  of  the  Enemy  at  the  most  Moderate 
computation   must   be    1,000.      Another  attack 
was  expected   last  Night  or  this  morning,   but 
nothing  took  place  except  a  few  shots  between 
their  rifle  men  and  our  Patroles,  and  as  we  can 
see  them  entrenching  themselves,  it  is  presumed 
they  are  too  much  disgusted  with  their  yester- 
day's reception  to  renew  the  attack.    We  shall  in 
all  probability  wait  here  till  the  Russians  or  the 
Duke  of  York  arrives  to  assist  us  ;    as  I  have 
now  been  60  hours  on  Dut}^  I  shall  retire  to  bed. 
With  Love  to  all  I  remain 

Yours  affec"^ 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Near  Petten,  Sept.  I5th,  '99. 

My  Dear  Father, 

I  have  only  just  time  to  tell  you  that 
7,000  Russians  are  arrived,  and  that  the  Duke 
of  York  is  also  with  us.     Yesterday  and  to-day 


THE    EXPEDITION    TO    HOLLAND     499 

two  very  large  Fleets  were  seen  going  in  to  the 
Texel.  The  Frcneh  have  scarsc  ventured  to 
show  tlicniselves  sinee  the  10th  Inst.  The  Dis- 
patehes  are  just  going  off. 

Yours  affee* 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


St.  Martin's  Brook, 

Sept.  ISth,  '99. 

My  Dear  Father, 

I  am  but  just  returned  from  one  of  the 
outposts,  where  I  have  been  on  Duty  24  hours, 
and  am  informed  Letters  go  to-day  at  12,  so  I 
have  only  time  to  tell  you  I  am  well  and  that 
nothing  worthy  of  Notice  has  occurred  since  the 
10th  except  the  arrival  of  the  Russians  and 
Duke  of  York.     All  well.     I  remain 

Yours  affec^^' 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

Love  to  all.  I  have  received  all  your  letters 
of  the  7th,  9th,  etc.,  but  have  no  time  to  answer 
them  to-day. 

St.  Martin's  Brook, 

Sept.  25th,  1799. 

My  Dear  Father, 

Nothing  has  occurred  worthy  of  Notice 
since  the  Action  of  which  I  sent  so  long  an 
account  to  Charlotte.  There  is  one  thing,  how- 
ever, I  think  hard  upon  us  Subalterns  of  the  3rd 
Regt.,  which  is  that  all  the  Ens"  of  the  Cold- 
stream and  8th  Regt.  go  home  on  promotion, 

but   owing    to    some    wliim    of  we    are   to 

remain.  Now  I  confess,  tho'  I  am  willing  to 
take  my  turn  of  Duty,  I  think  those  of  the  2nd 
Battn.  oufjht  to  take  their  share  also.     There  are 


500     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

now  only  three  before  me,  and  it  is  possible  if 
we  go  home  on  promotion  that  I  may  get  home 
in  the  course  of  the  winter ;  if  not  I  may  be 
obliged  to  stay  till  the  Regt.  returns,  which  may 
be  some  time.  I  doubt  not,  a  word  from  you 
might  rectify  the  business. 

Yours, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


St.  Martins,  Scp^.  30th,  1799. 

My  Dear  Father, 

We  Marched  at  3  o'clock  yesterday  Morn- 
ing to  attack  the  Enemy's  lines,  but  before 
we  got  to  the  place  of  our  destination  we 
received  orders  to  return  to  our  quarters.  The 
reason  of  the  attack's  being  put  off  I  do  not 
know,  but  I  believe  it  was  in  consequence  of 
the  high  wind  which  prevented  the  Gun  Vessels 
from  coming  near  the  Shore  to  assist  a  large 
portion  of  our  force  which  was  to  go  by  the 
sands  from  Petten  and  attack  the  Enemy  in 
the  rear  ;  we  are  every  moment  expecting 
orders  to  March.  The  unfavourableness  of  the 
weather  may  perhaps  delay  it  for  a  day  or  two, 
but  something  decisive  must  take  place  soon. 
I  am  perfectly  recovered  of  the  illness  I  had  in 
consequence  of  wading  through  the  Canals  on 
the  19th.  With  Love  to  all,  I  remain  yours 
affec"^ 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

Lord  Frederick  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

CoMBANK,  Thursday, 

OcVr  3rd  [1799]. 

Lord  John's  Letter,  my  dear  Brother,  which 
is    now    return'd,    gave    me    more    Satisfaction 


p.  500] 


3n^RY, 


SHa.". 


THE   EXPEDITION    TO    HOLLAND    501 

than  I  can  express.  It  is  indeed  a  wonderful 
Letter  from  so  young  a  Soldier  after  The  First 
and  very  warm  Action  in  whicli  he  had  ever  been 
engag'd.  For  it  marks  out  great  Good  Sense, 
Spirit  and  Firmness,  the  principal  Qualifications 
to  make  a  Great  j\Ian  and  a  good  General,  which 
I  hope  and  trust  He  will  live  to  be. 

I  have  heard  very  good  accounts  lately  of 
your  better  Health  and  Spirits.  I  rejoice  to 
have  Them  confirm'd  by  yourself,  and  tliat  you 
are  able  to  talk  over  and  think  about  Two 
Elections,  which  must  now  be  over  immediately, 
without  any  real  Cause  of  Alarm.  Sr.  Arch'd. 
Edmonstone  is  here  in  very  good  Health  and 
Spirits — perfectly  satisfy'd  that,  all  Circum- 
stances consider'd,  it  became  necessary  that 
Sr.  James  Colquhoun's  Son  should  Represent 
the  County  of  Dunbarton. 

I  put  the  Purchaser  of  my  House,  The  Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  in  possession  on  Thursday 
last,  and  at  the  same  Time  I  took  up  my  Bed 
and  walk'd  to  Argyll  House,  where  I  slept  very 
comfortably,  and  since  you  are  so  good  as  to 
allow  me  to  be  there,  I  shall  every  now  and 
then  make  it  a  Visit,  Tho  nothing  but  Business 
shall  force  me  to  London,  and  that  now  can 
neither  be  frequent  or  pressing. 

Lady  Ailesbury,  as  I  think  I  told  you  from 
Strawberry  Hill,  is  wonderfully  well  and  cheerful, 
and  Mrs.  Damer,  Tho'  I  did  not  particularly 
mention  her,  not  less  so. 

We  have  lately  had  wonderfully  Rains  and 
Floods — a  Great  deal  of  Grain  of  almost  every 
sort  still  out.  The  last  Three  days  liave  been 
fair.  But  Rain  seems  again  to  be  coming. 
With  great  attention  and  a  great  Many  Hands 
I   have   contriv'd   This   Morning   to   finish   my 


502     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Harvest.  I  am  told  that  some  Wheat  in  this 
Neighbourhood  has  begun  to  grow,  but  not  to 
any  Great  Quantity.  Mine,  I  am  just  told,  has 
been  put  into  the  Barn  in  tolerable  good  order. 

I  feel  very  anxious,  as  I  am  sure  you  must, 
to  hear  that  our  Army  has,  without  much  Loss, 
got  out  of  the  desperate  Situation  in  which 
from  Circumstances  They  have  been  plac'd.  To 
say  the  Truth  I  can  think  of  nothing  else.  But 
neither  Papers  or  Letters  say  anything  to-day. 

Lady  Fred'k  joins  me  in  affectionate  Good 
Wishes  to  you  and  all  your  Children,  who  are 
now  around  you,  and  We  both  most  heartily 
Wish  that  you  may  long  keep  together,  the 
true  Source  of  real  Happyness  and  Comfort. 
Yours,  my  Dear  Brother, 
Most  affectionately, 

Fred'k  Campbei-l. 

To  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Bandon,  August  6th,  1800. 

Dear  Lord  John, 

You  got  a  letter  yesterday  from  Captn. 
Thwaites  to  acquaint  you  that  the  Battalion 
had  received  orders  to  be  in  Readiness  for  Em- 
barkation. 

I  understand  we  shall  first  sail  for  Portsmouth 
— where  you  may  join  us. 

You  shall  be  written  to  when  we  receive 
further  orders. 

I  beg  my  best  respects  to  the  Duke  and  all 
your  family. 

Believe  very  faithfully,  &c. 

S.  Grosvenor. 

Col.  Murray  is  in  Scotland  and  has  been 
writen  to  by  the  Brigade  Major. 


A  SCOTTISH  ELECTION  A  CENTURY  AGO 

1801-1802 

The  following  letters  show  the  manner  of 
starting  a  candidate  for  a  Scots  county  seat  a 
little  over  a  hundred  years  ago.  Lord  John 
Campbell's  cause  found  good  support  in  Dun- 
bartonshire. 

It  is  notable  how  an  old  bad  spelling  has 
been  perpetuated  in  spelling  the  name  of  the 
old  fort  Dum-  instead  of  Dun-barton.  Dun- 
Brittan  is  the  oldest  and  best  form — the  fort  of 
the  Britons.  The  people  who  spelled  and  spell 
Dum-  might  as  well  call  North  Britain  M.B.  ! 


Mr.  James  Ferrier  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Lord  Duke, 

I  return  the  Duke  of  Montrose's  Letter. 
The  President  thinks  your  Grace  should  frankly 
agree  to  forward  his  views  in  Stirling  shire,  as 
that  will  give  you  some  claim  on  him  in  Dum- 
barton shire.  But  the  truth,  I  believe,  is 
that,  except  with  Sir  Arch*^  Edmonstone,  your 
Grace  has  no  interest  now  in  Stirling  shire,  as 
Sir  Alex*"  Campbell  &  Mr.  John  Campbell  have 
sold  their  votes,  and  I  have  given  up  mine. 

Sir  Arch'^  wishes  much  to  have  his  son  Charles 
in  for  Dumbarton  shire,  and  by  frankly  agreeing 
to   support   the   Duke   of  Montrose   in   Stirling 

503 


504     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

shire  his  claim  to   support  in  Dumbarton  shire 
will  be  the  stronger.     I  have  the  honour  to  be 
with  the  greatest  respect,  my  Lord  Duke, 
Your  Grace's  much  faithful  Ser'' 

Ja.  Ferrier. 

Ed«.   23  Novr.   1801. 

Mr.  James  Ferrier  to  Lord  Frederick  Campbell, 

My  Lord, 

I  was  so  lucky  as  to  find  Lord  Lome  & 
Lord  John  together  yesterday  at  Woodhall,  and 
with  Shawfield's  assistance,  but  not  without 
difFiculty,  in  a  few  minutes  got  Lord  John's 
consent  to  declare  him  a  Candidate  for  Dumbar- 
ton shire,  and  all  hands  set  to  work,  some  to 
write,  some  to  fold,  some  to  seal,  his  circular 
Letters,  which  I  put  into  the  Post  Office  at 
Glasgow  within  five  hours  after  our  meeting  at 
Woodhall.  In  coming  along  I  have  only  met 
with  one  Freeholder,  I\Ir.  Buchanan  of  Druma- 
keln.  He  had  not  got  his  Letter,  but,  without 
waiting  for  it,  promised  to  write  to  Lord  John 
this  day,  that  he  will  most  willingly  support  him, 
which  is  so  far  well,  as  he  is  a  near  neighbour  & 
personal  friend  of  the  Duke  of  Montrose's. 

Sir  James  Colquhoun  had  previously  called 
on  me,  to  ask  about  Dumbarton  shire,  and  I 
had  told  him  as  much  as  I  thought  myself  at 
liberty  to  divulge.  Before  leaving  Ed"  I  waited 
on  him  and  told  him  what  was  true,  that  I 
found  some  of  the  Duke  of  Argyll's  friends  would 
not  vote  for  his  son,  or  any  of  his  family,  but 
would  prefer  M""  Glasford,  and  as  he  would  pro- 
bably be  satisfied  soon  that  his  son  has  no  chance 
I  wished  to  be  able  to  tell  the  Argyll  family 
what  to  expect,  in  the  event  of  a  Contest  betwixt 


A    SCOTTISH    ELECTION  505 

Lord  John  &  Mr.  Glasford.  He  answered  that 
undoubtedly  he  would  in  that  case  support  Lord 
John.  My  belief  at  present  is  that  there  will  be 
no  contest,  that  Lord  John  will  be  unanimously 
elected.  By  the  by  Shawfield  wrote  to  Gart- 
more  his  cousin^  &  seem'd  to  think  he  would 
probably  gain  him,  as  they  are  friends,  as  well 
as  Relations. 

The  only  thing  which  I  thought  of  and  did 
not  see  done  was  Lord  Lome's  writing  a  civil 
Letter  to  the  Duke  of  Montrose,  but  Shawfield 
undertook  to  keep  his  Lordship  in  mind,  and  I 
have  no  doubt  that  it  is  done  by  this  time. 

Terrible  frost  &  snow  this  length,  but  I  am 
told  it  is  not  so  bad  in  Argyll  shire.  I  have  the 
honour  to  be  with  great  respect,  My  Lord, 

Your  Lordship's  much  obliged  faithful  ser'^ 

Ja.  Ferrier. 

Inn, 

Sunday,  3  Jany.  1802. 

M"  HoN^'^''  Lord  Fredk.  Campbell. 


Mr.  James  Ferrier  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Jan*  21,  1S02. 

My  Lord  Duke, 

This  is  the  first  Letter  I  have  attempted 
to  write  since  I  left  your  Grace,  and  you  will  be 
so  good  as  excuse  its  being  a  short  one  as  my 
fingers  are  not  yet  very  sound.  We  have  met 
with  some  rubs  in  Dumbartonshire,  particularly 
from  the  Duke  of  IMontrose,  who  does  not 
approve  of  Lord  John's  standing  a  Candidate, 
yet  it  is  said  his  Grace  is  not  to  oppose,  and  as 
yet  no  other  Candidate  is  openly  in  the  feild. 
Meantime,  by  the  friendship  of  Sir  James 
Colquhoun,  who  has  of  new  declared  to  Lord 
VOL.  n.  12 


506     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Lome  &  Lord  John  his  attachment  to  your 
Grace  and  your  family,  &  his  resolution  to  sup- 
port Lord  John  against  every  person  except  his 
own  son,  Lord  John's  election  is  considered  to 
be  secured,  and  I  think,  as  at  first,  that  he  will 
not  be  opposed. 

Lord  Lome  two  days  ago  sent  a  note  to  M"" 
Dundas  desiring  a  meeting,  to  express  his  desire 
that  Ministry  will  not  interfere.  I  do  not  know 
if  the  meeting  has  yet  taken  place,  but  the 
President  tells  me,  that  Ministry  certainly  will 
not  interfere  against  your  Grace.  The  business 
is  therefore  I  think  in  very  good  train. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be  with  the  utmost 
respect.  My  Lord  Duke, 

Your  Grace's  much  obliged  faithful  ser"" 

Ja.  Ferrier. 

Ed»,  21  Ja'ny  1802. 


Mr,  James  Ferrier  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Jan«  27,  1802. 

My  Lord  Duke, 

I  have  just  been  at  Woodburn  seeing 
Lord  Lome  set  out  for  London  after  settling 
with  him  &  Lord  John  the  steps  necessary  to 
be  immediately  taken  in  regard  to  politicks. 
Mr.  Glasford  is  now  openly  in  the  feild  sup- 
ported by  the  Duke  of  ]\lontrose,  and  Major 
Colquhoun  has  also  declared  himself  a  candi- 
date. The  last  will  find  that  he  has  not  a 
vote  in  the  County  beyond  his  Father  &  two 
Uncles — of  course  I  expect  in  terms  of  what 
they  have  said  &  written  that  they  will  give  up 
the  canvass  &  join  Lord  John,  who  will  then 
stand  16  to  12,  as  your  Grace  will  see  by  the 
enclosed  List,  and  there  are  five  not  declared. 


A    SCOTTISH    ELECTION  507 

the  three  last  of  whom  represent  familys  who 
were  in  use  to  go  witli  your  Grace  and  I  know 
no  reason  for  their  not  doing  so  on  this  occasion. 
Two  of  them  live  in  London  and  are  to  be 
attack'd  by  Lord  Lome  on  his  arrival  there. 
The  third  is  Nephew  to  Mr.  Allan  at  the  Row, 
whom  I  have  desired  to  stir  in  securing  him, 
and  I  have  no  doubt  will  do  it. 

Lord  Lome  will  have  inform'd  your  Grace 
that  Mr.  Dundas  has  promised  a  neutrality,  and 
conceded  some  other  points  that  your  Grace  & 
his  Lordship  wish'd  to  have  settled,  and  that  in 
return  his  Lordship  is  to  try  to  get  Sir  Archibald 
Edmonstone  to  support  Sir  Rob""  Abercromby 
in  Stirling  shire  at  the  General  Election. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be  with  the  utmost 
respect,  My  Lord  Duke, 

Your  Grace's  much  obliged  faithful  ser^ 

Ja.  Ferrier. 

Ed",  27  Jan^  1802. 


For  Lord  John. 

Lord  President, 

Sir  Arch''  Edmonstone. 

Peaton. 

Sir  James  Colquhoun. 
5       Lord  Fred"'  Campbell. 

V-  Co'  Lo**  Colquhoun. 

Charles  Edmonstone. 

Co'  W™  Colquhoun. 

Arch''  Campbell  Succoth. 
10       Hector  M'Donald  Buchanan. 

Airds. 

Major  James  Colquhoun. 

Lord  John  Campbell. 

General  Ceils. 
15       Mr.  Rouat  Smollett. 
X  Co^  James  Campbell. 


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Not  Declared. 

Mr.  Garlshore. 

Mr.  Fergusson  Raith. 

Mr.  Yuill  Darleith. 

Mr.  Buchanan  Drumhead. 

Mr.  Donald  Lylestone. 


For  Mr.  Glasford. 

Lord  Methven. 

Gartmore. 

Mr.  Buchanan  Ardoch. 

Mr.  Dennistoun. 
5  Ditto        Junior. 

Cap'  Lennox. 

Mr.  Hamilton  Barns. 

Mr.  Colquhoun  Garrcader. 
X  Mr.  Douglas. 
10  X  Mr.  Glasford. 

X  Hon"''  W"  Elphinstone. 
X  Mr.  Adam. 

N.B. — Those  having  a  x  before  their  names  are  not  yet  on 
the  Roll,  but  are  to  claim  to  be  enrolled  at  the  Election. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  tJie  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Dear  Father, 

I  had  yesterday  some  further  conversa- 
tion with  Major  Colquhoun.  He  told  me  that, 
tho'  he  was  not  at  liberty  fully  to  explain 
Himself,  He  entertained  not  the  least  doubt 
of  success  at  the  next  General  Election.  Now 
I  know  the  only  Chance  He  can  Have  is  the 
Duke  of  Montrose  giving  up  Mr.  Glasford  and 
supporting  Major  Colquhoun  with  the  Glasford 
party. 

I  think   therefore   it  might  not    be  improper 
to  write  to  those  Gentlemen  who  have  voted 


A    SCOTTISH    ELECTION  509 

for  Mr.  Glasford  from  ^lotives  of  personal 
Friendship  only  (and  who  probably  would  not 
support  any  otlier  Man  the  Duke  might  propose), 
requesting  to  Know  whether,  in  the  Event  of 
Mr.  Glasford's  not  being  Eligible  at  the  Gen'l 
Election  or  His  giving  up  His  claims,  they 
would  support  me  rather  than  Major  Colqu- 
houn  ?  If  you  think  this  a  proper  Measure 
I  will  consult  Terrier  immediately  upon  the 
Subject,  and  if  he  approves  will  put  it  in 
execution  directl3^ 

Your  affectionate 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

Thursday. 

{Endorsed)  Feb.  1802.   Lord  John  about  Election. 


Mr.  Robert  Campbell  to  Colonel  Ch'aham, 

eth  Feby.  1802. 

Dear  Sir, 

Yesterday  I  wrote  you  a  few  lines  by  a 
private  opportunity.  I  was  sorry  to  learn 
that  the  note  I  sent  you  from  Lylestown  at 
2  o'clock  did  not  reach  you  till  you  was  almost 
starved  to  death  between  six  and  seven,  and 
to  add  to  your  misfortunes  that  you  set  out 
at  6  o'clock  next  morning,  so  that  you  must 
have  had  some  hours  of  the  worst  weather 
possible.  I  hope,  however,  that  you  got  safe 
home,  and  that  you  found  Mrs.  Graham  and 
your  young  folks  well.  As  there  can  be  no 
impropriety  in  communicating  the  little  I  know 
of  the  Political  Matters  in  which  we  must 
feel  equally  interested  to  you,  I  beg  leave  to 
mention  that  the  Glasford  Party  are  very  active. 
After  parting  with  you  on  Tuesday  I   called 


510     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

upon  Mr.  John  Donald,  where  I  learned  that 
he  had  been  dining  at  Capt.  Lenoxes  on 
Monday,  where  he  met  with  Mr.  Glasford,  who 
had  been  visiting  the  Lochlomondside  Free- 
holders that  forenoon,  though  I  believe  with 
little  success.  I  met  with  Lord  John  near 
Dumbarton,  accompanied  him  to  Captain  Len- 
noxes, who  received  his  Lordship  with  much 
politeness,  but  informed  him  that  he  had  given 
his  vote  to  Mr.  Glasford.  Called  upon  Mr. 
Donald,  who  adhering  to  the  advice  of  his 
friends  not  to  declare  himself,  immediately 
returned  to  Levenside,  and  next  morning  called 
upon  Captain  Mollet  who  gives  Lord  John  his 
hearty  support,  upon  Colonel  Ludovic  Colquhoun 
who  seems  equally  well  disposed  to  support 
his  Lordship  next  to  his  own  Nephew,  who 
does  not  yet  seem  fully  determined.  Called  at 
Rossdae  in  the  absence  of  Major  Colquhoun, 
who  met  us  upon  his  return  and  seem'd  much 
pleased  with  his  Lordship's  visit,  which  he  will 
probably  return  if  his  Lordship  makes  any  stay 
here  on  his  way  to  Invei-aray. 

Lord  John  returned  to  Levenside  on  Wednes- 
day evening,  and  I  stoped  at  Dumbarton  in  order 
to  make  some  private  inquiries  about  a  report 
which  prevails  that  matters  are  going  wrong 
there.  As  I  supposed  Captain  Davidson  to  be 
the  most  proper  person  to  give  me  information, 
I  walked  up  to  Dalkeith,  and  finding  him  from 
home  returned  about  10  Clock  at  night.  Next 
morning  I  saw  the  two  Bailies  as  if  by  accident. 
I  find  that  the  former  oposition  party  are 
endeavouring  to  take  advantage  of  the  dis- 
contents which  the  disbanding  of  the  Burgh 
Voluntiers  have  occasioned,  but  that  matters 
are  not  so  bad  as  represented.     Mr.  Ferrier  is 


A    SCOTTISH    ELECTION  511 

apprised  of  their  situation,  to  which  I  have  no 
doubt  he  will  attend,  though  he  would  not  I 
dare  say  thank  me  for  troubling  myself  about 
matters  which  do  not  immediately  concern  me. 
I  will  most  certainly  do  no  harm,  and  I  think  it 
my  duty  to  give  Lord  John  any  information 
which  I  can  procure.  As  Dumbarton  is  the 
returning  Burgh  at  the  next  Election,  I  should 
suppose  it  very  material  to  retain  it. 

I  came  to  Mr.  Donalds  on  thursday  (after 
seeing  Lord  John  in  the  morning)  compleatly  wet. 
I  find  he  is  hard  pressed  by  all  parties,  but  I 
trust  he  will  ultimately  adhere  to  the  interest 
which  his  Father  and  Grandfather  supported. 
Lord  John  was  here  for  a  fcAV  hours  yesterday ; 
we  expect  him  again  this  day  or  to-morrow. 
I  am,  Dear  Sir, 

Sincerely  Yours, 

RoBT.  Campbell. 


Mr.  James  Ferrier  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

My  Lord  Duke, 

I  send  you  a  view  of  Dumbarton  shire,  as 
it  stands  at  this  time,  from  which  you  will  see 
that  Lord  John  stands  fair  to  be  returned,  even 
if  the  Cokjuhouns  were  not  to  join  him,  and 
that  with  them  he  will  have  a  great  majority. 
The  only  danger  to  be  apprehended  is  the  other 
party  joining  ^lajor  Colquhoun,  and  then  to  be 
sure  the  matter  may  become  very  difficult,  for 
even  if  the  Election  shall  come  on  before  the 
29th  July,  and  which  we  must  try  to  bring  about, 
there  will  be  12  good  votes  against  Lord  John, 
and  if  all  these  were  to  join  Major  Colquhoun 
they  would  give  him  a  majority  of  one.     I  am 


512     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

hopeful,  however,  that  all  of  them  will  not  be 
so  condescending  as  to  transfer  in  that  manner, 
and  in  that  case  we  must  prevail.  This  much 
seems  to  be  clear — that  Mr.  Glasford  cannot 
succeed,  and  that  either  Lord  John  or  Major 
Colquhoun  must  be  returned,  for  the  Colquhouns 
cannot  join  him  or  any  other  having  promised 
to  vote  for  Lord  John  next  to  themselves. 

I  have   the   honour   to   be   with   the   utmost 
respect,  My  Lord  Duke, 

Your  Grace's  much  obliged  faithful  ser' 

Ja.  Ferrier. 

Ed«,  23  June,  1802. 


Vieu,  22  June,  1802. 

Lord  President. 

Sir  Arch**  Edmonstone. 

Peaton. 

Lord  Frederick  Campbell. 
5       Charles  Edmonstone. 

Arch''  Campbell  Succoth. 

Hector  McDonald  Buchanan. 

Airds. 

Lord  John  Campbell. 
10       General  Geils. 

Mr.  Rouat  Smollett. 

Mr.  Yuille  Darleith. 

Mr.  Donald  Lylestone. 

Co'  James  Campbell. 
15      Rev''  George  Edmonstone. 

Sir  James  Colquhoun, 
Co'  W"  Colquhoun. 
Co'  Lo''  Colquhoun. 
Major  Colquhoun. 

Lord  Methven. 

Gartmore. 

Mr.  Buchanan  of  Ardoch. 


A   SCOTTISH    ELECTION  513 

Mr.  Dennistoun. 
5  Ditto      Junior. 

Cap'  Lennox. 
Mri  Hamilton  Barns. 
Mr.  Colquhoun  of  Garrcaddcr. 
Mr.  Douglas  of  Nairns. 
10       Mr.  Fergusson  of  Raith. 

Mr.  Buchanan  Dunlop  Drumhead. 
Mr.  Adam. 

Hon*""  W"  Elphinstone.  Bad. 

Mr.  Glasford  not  ready  till  29  July,  1802. 


LETTERS  FROM  LORD  JOHN  CAMPBELL 
WHILE  TRAVELLING  ON  THE  CON- 
TINENT IN  THE  YEAR  1803 

Lord  John  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Argyll,  House, 
Tuesday,   I"  Feb"  [1803?]. 

My  Dear  Father, 

The  late  melancolly  event  prevented  my 
appearance  at  the  Birthday  or  any  court  day 
that  has  taken  place  since,  but  on  Wednesday 
next  George  and  me  are  to  go  to  the  Levee, 
and  the  day  after  I  propose  starting  on  my 
way  to  Dover.  With  regard  to  my  stay  upon 
the  Continent,  I  am  sure  I  shall  not  wish 
to  stay  a  day  longer  than  may  be  agreable  to 
you.  The  supplies  you  have  been  so  Kind  as 
to  send  me  by  Ferrier  you  may  depend  upon 
being  managed  with  as  much  economy  as  I 
am  master  of,  and  I  do  not  doubt  they  will  be 
sufficient  for  me  for  a  long  time.  I  was  very 
Happy  to  hear  that  you  are  so  well,  and  I  hope 
Charlotte  will  soon  be  with  you,  which  will 
enliven  the  society  of  the  Castle  much.  I  shall 
write  from  Dover  and  from  Calais. 

I  have  desired  young  Farquhar  to  take  care 
of  my  Letters  ;  when  you  write  to  me,  there- 
fore, direct  them  to  Mess"  Herries,  Farquhar 
&  C°,  S*"  James's  Street,  London. 

I  remain,  my  Dear  Father, 

Yours  affec^, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

514 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  515 

Lord  John  Campbell  to  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

Pabis,  March  5th,  1803. 

Dear  George, 

We  arrived  Here,  as  you  probably  know 
from  Lewis,  on  the  21st  Feby.,  and  I  have 
been  constantly  employed  since  that  time  in 
seeing  the  curiosities  of  the  place.  The  Gallery 
of  the  Louvre  you  probably  recollect  seeing 
before  the  revolution,  as  I  am  told  there  was  at 
that  time  a  collection  of  Pictures  in  it.  Bona- 
parte has  now  added  all  those  brought  from 
Italy,  and  it  contains  at  present  950  Pictures 
by  the  most  celebrated  Masters,  and  I  am 
told  they  Have  nearly  Half  as  many  more  yet 
unpacked  for  which  they  Have  no  room.  The 
Gallery  is  1,700  feet  in  length.  In  rooms  below 
are  arranged  all  the  Antique  Statues,  with  many 
of  which  I  was  much  delighted. 

All  the  publick  Buildings  Avhich  existed  before 
the  revolution  you  are  probably  acquainted  with. 
Of  these  the  Cathedral  of  Notre  Dame  Has 
not  suffered  Much.  The  Pictures  and  Tapestry 
indeed  are  taken  away,  but  the  Building  and  the 
two  beautiful  circular  windows  of  Painted  Glass 
are  in  perfect  preservation.  The  Pantheon  is 
not  yet  finished  tho'  begun  in  1758,  but  will 
be,  I  think,  in  the  inside  very  beautiful  indeed, 
and  from  the  top,  which  is  300  feet  High,  we  Had 
a  charming  view  of  Paris  and  its  environs.  The 
clearness  of  the  atmosphere,  from  the  absence 
of  coal  smoke  I  presume,  surprised  me  much ; 
from  this  High  situation  I  could  see  very  distant 
parts  of  the  Town  with  more  accuracy  than  one 
can  see  across  a  street  in  London.  You  will 
perhaps  recollect  the  marble  pavement  of  the 
church  and  Dome  of  L'Hospital  des  Invalides  ; 


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tho'  decorated  with  Crowns  and  other  insignia 
of  Royalty,  it  Has  by  some  accident  escaped 
the  fury  of  the  Revolutionary  Mobs  :  from  the 
Corniche  or  Friezes  are  suspended  1,800  Stand- 
ards taken  in  the  last  war. 

Of  the  other  Buildings  you  may  remember,  the 
ci-devant  Palace  of  the  Luxembourg  is  converted 
into  the  residence  of  the  conservative  Senate,  and 
the  magnificent  House  of  the  Prince  de  Conde 
on  the  other  side  of  the  River  is  at  present 
the  Hall  of  Assembly  of  the  Legislative  Body. 
The  Thuillieries,  you  know,  is  the  Consular 
Palace.  What  was  formerly  the  Garde  Meubles 
de  Roy  is  the  residence  of  Le  Ministre  de  La 
Marine,  who  gave  a  Ball  the  other  day  at  which 
I  was  present :  all  the  Men  in  uniform  or  dress 
coats,  except  the  ancient  Nobles  who  Have 
been  allowed  to  return ;  they  appear  in  plain 
clothes.  The  Ladies  were  Magnificently  un- 
dressed. 

To-day  we  are  going  to  be  presented  to  Mons. 
Tallyrand,  and  to-morrow  we  are  to  be  pre- 
sented to  the  first  Consul.  I  have  already  seen 
Him  at  the  Opera  for  a  Moment,  but  after 
to-morrow  I  shall  be  able  to  discribe  Him  more 
perfectly  ;  at  the  distance  I  saw  Him  He  appeared 
very  like  the  busts  you  see  in  London. 

March  6th. — Yesterday  after  I  Had  written 
the  above  we  were  presented  to  M.  Tallerand, 
the  Minister  of  the  Interior.  He  resembles 
nothing  so  much  as  a  dead  man.  His  feet  are 
distorted  in  a  Shocking  Manner,  and  I  think 
He  deserves  well  of  His  country  for  Having 
by  unremitting  perseverance  learned  to  walk 
upon  them.      This  Morning  at  11  we  went  with 

Lady  to  see   the  grand  parade.     We  were 

admitted   into  the  passage  leading  to  the  Salle 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  517 

des  Ambassadcurs  in  the  palace  of  the  Thuil- 
leries.  The  parade,  consisting  of  about  7  or 
8,000  men,  being  formed,  Bonaparte  mounted 
His  white  Horse  and  rode  to  the  right  of  the 
line,  passing  close  to  the  window  where  I  was. 
He  was  dressed  in  a  blue  coat  with  broad  white 
facings  and  Gold  P^paulets,  white  pantaloons  and 
Military  boots.  His  Hat  was  quite  plain,  without 
any  lace  or  ornament  of  any  Kind.  After  riding 
along  the  lines  both  without  and  within  the 
Iron  rails,  He  returned  to  the  great  door  of  the 
Palace,  where  He  sat  on  Horseback  for  some 
time  delivering  Sabres  and  Muskets  of  Honor  to 
several  Soldiers.  He  then  went  upstairs  with 
His  Generals,  where  he  remained  till  near  3 
o'clock,  at  which  time  we  were  admitted  to  the 
Levee  or  drawing  room. 

A  circle  is  immediately  formed  round  the 
room  ;  the  3  Consuls  stand  at  the  fireplace, 
Bonaparte  in  the  Middle.  As  soon  as  the  people 
are  all  assembled  He  begins  talking  to  the 
persons  next  Him,  and  goes  round  just  like 
the  King.  He  talked  a  good  while  to  Lord 
Whitworth,  who  presented  Me  and  about  13 
others.  I  stood  close  to  Him,  and  Had  a  good 
opportunity  of  examining  His  countenance.  He 
Has  Hair  Straight  and  rather  darker  than  yours  ; 
the  Shape  of  His  Head  very  like  Mine  ;  His 
Eyes  light  Grey,  not  nmch  Eye  brow ;  the  Brow 
projecting  a  good  deal,  but  not  so  much  as  is 
represented  in  the  casts  at  London.  His  Nose 
is  large  and  prominent,  but  Has  not  that  sudden 
rise  in  the  middle  which  mine  Has,  and  as  His 
Busts  Have,  but  resembles  ^Villiam  Campbell's 
more  ;  his  complexion  is  unconnnonly  sallow. 
His  Beard  very  dark  but  not  thickset,  and 
apparently   not   newly    sluived.     His   teeth    are 


518     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

very  fine,  and  when  He  Laughs  or  smiles  the 
expression  of  Ilis  face  is  quite  charming.  His 
Higlith,  I  should  think,  is  as  nearly  Mine  as 
possible.  He  is  certainly  no  taller.  His  limbs 
are  small  but  straight  Kneed  and  neatly  made. 
He  was  dressed  in  the  consular  coat,  which 
is  crimson  Velvet  richly  embroidered,  white 
Breeches  and  silk  Stockings.  After  having  gone 
round  the  circle  He  placed  Himself  between 
Cambaceres  and  Le  Brun,  and  made  3  bows  of 
dismissal,  on  which  we  all  retired. 

I  am  so  tired  I  must  now  go  to  bed,  as  a  cruel 
French  Master  attacks  me  at  7  o'clock  in  the 
morning.     Adieu. 

Yours  affect'y, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

Note. — The  reception  at  the  Tuileries,  when 
Lord  John  Campbell  accompanied  Lord  Whit- 
worth  and  spoke  to  the  First  Consul,  was  the 
gathering  immediately  preceding  that  at  which 
Bonaparte  "flew  at"  Lord  Whitworth, abusing  the 
British  for  not  fulfilling  the  terms  of  the  Treaty 
regarding  their  evacuation  of  Malta.  Thiers,  in 
his  "  History  of  the  Consulate  and  the  Empire," 
does  not  mention  the  order  given  by  Napoleon  for 
the  arrest  of  all  Englishmen  travelling  in  France. 
It  was  this  order  which  was  so  nearly  ending 
Lord  John's  journey  in  a  French  prison,  a  fate 
that  actually  did  overtake  his  friend  Robertson. 
It  was  soon  after  this  curious  and  capricious 
seizure  of  harmless  travellers  that  the  prepara- 
tions were  made  at  Boulogne  for  the  invasion 
of  England,  and  not  long  before  the  Due  d'En- 
ghien  was  arrested  in  German  territory,  brought 
to  Vincennes,  and  shot  in  the  fosse  of  that 
fortress  on  a  proved  charge  of  fighting  against 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  519 

liis  native  country,  France.  Napoleon  believed 
him  to  be  among  the  would-be  assassins  of 
himself,  as  well  as  the  mortal  enemy  of  the 
Republic — and  "La  Republique,  c'est  moi,"  was 
at  that  time  his  description  of  himself. 


Lord  John  Ccnnpbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Ulm  en  Souabe,  Jj«/^  17//i  [1803]. 

My  dear  Father, 

You  will  no  doubt  be  surprised  at  the 
date  of  this  letter,  as  Ulm  is  by  no  Means  in 
the  direct  road  to  any  port  from  whence  I 
can  embark  for  England.  Soon  after  writing 
to  you  on  the  22nd  of  June,  I  left  Lausanne, 
and  spent  a  few  days  in  seeing  the  Lakes  of 
Neuchatel  and  Bienne,  and  in  passing  through 
Yverdun  I  saw  Mademoiselle  de  la  Chaise,  who 
was  anxiously  waiting  for  an  opportunity  of 
going  to  England,  and  as  that  was  not  likely  to 
happen  soon,  I  offered  her  a  place  in  our  Carriage, 
which  she  accepted,  and  said  she  would  join  us 
at  Bern,  where  I  proposed  remaining  a  few  days 
to  see  the  environs.  She  came  accordingly  on 
the  8th  inst.,  and  on  the  9th  we  set  out,  meaning 
to  pass  by  Zurich  and  Schafi'hausen  in  order  to 
see  those  places,  but  on  the  road  we  were  advised 
to  avoid  Zurich  as  the  French  Officer  there  had 
been  particularly  severe  against  the  English. 
In  consequence  of  this  we  stopped  at  Baden, 
and  sent  for  our  letters  which  we  expected  at 
Zurich. 

Unfortunately  an  order  arrived  in  the  Night 
to  arrest  the  EnoHsh  all  over  Switzerland  as  had 
been  before  executed  in  France,  and  early  in 
the  morning  The  French  Ollicer  Commanding  at 


520     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Baden  went  to  Robertson's  Room  and  forced 
him  to  give  his  parole  that  he  would  not  attempt 
to  escape  ;  he  enquired  particularly  after  me, 
but  Robertson  told  him  that  he  did  not  know 
where  I  was,  and  he  left  the  Inn  without  seeing 
me.  As  soon  as  I  heard  of  this,  I  dressed  myself 
in  women's  clothes  belonging  to  Mademoiselle, 
and  walked  out  of  the  town  without  being 
suspected.  I  concealed  myself  for  the  rest  of 
the  day  in  a  wood  about  3  miles  from  the  Town, 
and  in  the  Evening  Mademoiselle,  who  had  a 
Swiss  passport,  came  for  me  in  a  carriage,  and 
with  her  I  passed  the  Frontiers  in  Character  of 
her  "  Femme  de  Chambre  "  !  !  I  She  returned 
to  Yverdun,  not  chusing  to  accompany  me  to 
England,  and  I  came  here  to  wait  for  news  from 
Robertson,  who  has  some  hopes  of  being  released 
in  quality  of  Physician.  As  soon  as  I  hear  from 
him  I  shall  write  to  you ;  in  the  meantime  I  am 
here  in  perfect  Health,  and  have  my  French 
Servant  with  me  for  Interpreter.  Gardener 
was  arrested  with  Robertson. 

Adieu,  my  dear  Father  ;    believe  Me 
Yours  affect'y, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Vienna,  July  21th,  1803. 

My  dear  Father, 

I  arrived  here  the  day  before  yesterday, 
and  have  been  much  delighted  with  my  voyage 
down  the  Danube  :  it  is  very  fortunate  that  I 
came  here,  for  Mr.  Paget  is  going  to  England 
on  the  10th  of  next  month,  and  has  proposed 
to   me   to   accompany   him,   which   I  have,   of 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  521 

course,  accepted.  By  that  means  all  difficulties 
relative  to  my  embarkment  will  be  done  away  ; 
in  the  meantime  I  shall  see  all  that  is  worth 
seeing  here,  and  on  our  way  we  shall  pass 
through  Dresden,  Berlin,  &c. 

I  have  not  yet  heard  from  Robertson,  but  I 
cannot  entertain  any  hopes  that  he  will  get 
released  before  the  other  English  who  are  taken 
prisoners,  and  when  that  may  be  it  is  difficult 
to  say.  My  Health  is  perfectly  good ;  on  that 
head  you  may  be  perfectly  easy.  With  love  to 
Charlotte,  Augusta,  &c.,  I  remain 

Your  Affec'te 

J.  D.  Campbell. 


VOL.  n.  13 


LETTERS   FROM  M.   DE   SAUSSURE 

1803-1806 

The  father  of  this  De  Saussure  was  the  first  man 
to  dimb  Mont  Blanc  in  1788.  He  died  in  1799. 
His  son,  the  writer  of  these  letters,  inherited 
much  of  his  father's  talent,  and  was  very  hospit- 
able to  English  travellers. 

M.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Geneve,  2  Juin,  1803. 

My  Lord, 

Je  vous  envoie  sous  ce  pli  une  lettre  de 
credit  de  Mess"  Hentsch  &  C°,  sur  Lausahe,  Bale 
et  Francfort,  de  5627"  de  P^ ;  dont  vous  feres 
usage  suivant  votre  convenance. 

Ces  Messieurs  ont  retenu  pour  provision  et 
port  de  lettres  £116  19:  lis  m'ont  livre  50 
Louis,  soit  735''  argent  Courant  de  Geneve,  que 
j'ai  livre  a  votre  Courrier  pour  solder  vos  comptes. 

Vous  verres  que  le  dit  Courrier  m'a  rem- 
bourse  270"  12  sols  de  f''^  dont  78"  pour  diverses 
avances  que  j'ai  faites  pour  vous  et  p:  M'" 
Robertson,  et  huit  Louis,  soit  192"  de  P^,  pour 
paier  le  portrait  que  j'ai  envoie  a  My  Lord  Lome. 
J'ai  pense.  My  Lord,  qu'il  vous  seroit  facile  de 
vous  faire  rembourser  cet  objet  par  votre  frere. 
Voila  vos  affaires  d'argent  en  regie  ;  et  voicy 
d'autres  dont  je  dois  vous  rendre  compte. 

J'ai  passe  hier  a  Secheron  ches  Milady  Beverley; 

622 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         523 

je  lui  ai  remis  votrc  lettre  et  celle  de  Madame 
de  Stacl.  J'en  ai  etc  fort  bieii  re^ii.  Elle  a 
accepte  avec  empressement  1 'invitation  de  Mad. 
de  Stael  pour  Vcndredi  :  elle  sera  charmee  de 
faire  sa  cofioissance.  Je  siiis  invite  a  passer 
la  soiree  avec  elle  ches  Madame  Tacretine.  Je 
joins  yci  deux  lettres  que  Lord  Beverley  m'en- 
voie.  II  vous  a  remplacc  dans  Tappartement  que 
vous  aves  quitte,  mais  ce  n'cst  point  la  meme 
chose  pour  nous.  Vous  nous  manques  extrcme- 
ment  I'un  &  I'autre. 

Ma  feme  a  trouve  la  persone  qui  lui  est  re- 
comandee  fort  malade,  et  elle  se  voit  obligee  de 
lui  doner  la  journee  de  demain.  Je  I'emploierai 
de  mon  cote  a  arranger  quelques  affaires  ;  mais 
nous  serons  libres  Samedi,  et  nous  venons  de 
nous  arranger  avec  Madame  Cazenove  pour 
partir  avec  elle  pour  Lausane  ce  jour  la.  Nous 
dinerons  a  la  Tete  Noire^  et  nous  vous  y  doiions 
rendes  vous.  Prcsentes  s.v.p.  nos  excuses  a 
Madame  de  Stael,  et  exprimes  lui  tout  le  regret 
que  nous  avons  eu  de  la  quitter.  Nous  la  devan- 
cerons  d'un  jour  a  Lausaiie,  et  si  elle  a  quelque 
ordre  a  nous  doner  tell  her,  we  are  at  her 
devotion. 

Adieu,  My  Lord ;  our  best  compP^  to  M: 
Robertson.     I  am  with  greatest  regard 

Your  most  humb'' 

Saussure. 

Voules  vous  bien  assurer  Monsieur  Necker  de 
nos  respects. 

\Translalion.'\ 

Geneva,  2iid  Jane,   1803. 
My  Lord, 

I  enclose  herewith  a  letter  of  credit  to  Messrs.  Hentsch 
&  Co.  for  Lausanne,  Basle,  and  Frankfort,  for  5G27  French 
livres,  which  you  will  use  according  to  your  convenience. 


524     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

These  gentlemen  have  retained  against  postage  of  letters 
and  in  case  of  emergency  £11 G  195.  Tliey  delivered  me  50  louis, 
which  I  delivered  to  your  courier  to  pay  your  account. 

You  will  note  that  your  courier  repaid  me  270  livres 
12  sous,  of  which  78  for  divers  advances  made  by  me  for  you 
and  Mr.  Robertson,  and  8  louis,  or  192  frs.,  to  pay  the  portrait 
which  I  have  sent  to  Lord  Lome.  I  tliought,  my  Lord, 
you  would  easily  be  able  to  get  this  sum  back  from  your 
brother.  So  much  for  your  own  money  matters,  and  now 
for  other  matters. 

I  was  at  Secheron  yesterday  at  Lady  Beverley's ;  I  gave 
her  your  letter  and  the  one  from  Mme.  de  Stael.  I  was  very 
well  received  by  her.  She  accepted  with  alacrity  Mme.  de 
Stael's  invitation  for  Friday :  she  will  be  charmed  to  make 
her  acquaintance.  I  am  invited  to  spend  the  evening  with 
her  at  Mme.  Tacretine's.  I  enclose  two  letters  from  Lord 
Beverley.  He  has  taken  the  apartment  you  had,  but  it  is 
not  the  same  thing  for  us  !     We  miss  you  both  very  much. 

My  wife  found  the  person  introduced  to  her  very  ill,  and 
will  be  obliged  to  devote  the  whole  of  to-morrow  to  her.  I 
shall  spend  it  in  settling  various  matters,  but  we  shall  be 
free  on  Saturday,  and  have  arranged  with  Mme.  Cazenove 
to  go  to  Lausanne  with  her.  We  dine  at  the  Tete  Noire, 
and  hope  to  meet  you  there.  Please  excuse  us  to  Mme.  do 
Stael,  and  express  our  regret  at  leaving  her.  We  shall  be  at 
Lausanne  a  day  earlier  than  she,  and  if  she  has  any  orders 
for  us  tell  her  "  we  are  at  her  devotion." 

Good-bye,  my  Lord  ;  our  best  compliments  to  Mr.  Robert- 
son.    I  am  with  greatest  regard 

Your  most  humble 

Saussure. 

Pray  convey  our  respects  to  M""  Necker. 


M.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell, 

Geneve,  13  Juin,  1803. 

En  me  separant  de  vous  a  Lausane,  je  con- 
servois  encore  quelque  espoir,  mon  cher  Lord, 
d'un  raprochement  entre  votre  gouvernement  et 
celui  de  la  France  par  la  mediation  de  la  Russie. 
Aujom'd'hui   nous    devons    y    renoncer.     Cette 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         525 

question  proposce  par  Fox  en  Parlemcnt,  et 
debattuc  par  W  Pitt  et  vos  orateurs,  a  ete  enfin 
retiree  par  Fox  lui-menie.  (On  soit  eontente  dc 
reeonoitre  en  principe,  qu'iinc  mediation  puis- 
sante  ctoit  aceeptable,  mais  qu'il  falloit  admettre 
des  eonditions  qui  puissent  lui  assurer  la  con- 
lianee  de  la  Nation  et  de  son  gouvernement.) 

Voila  done  la  guerre  dceidee.  Les  fran9ois 
sont  en  possession  de  I'Hanovre ;  il  ne  paroit  pas 
qu'il  y  ait  eii  de  resistance ;  les  papiers  anoneent 
que  I'armee  ITanovriene  est  prisonicre  de  guerre. 
On  suppose  qu'il  y  a  eu  une  capitulation  avec  les 
Etats  du  pays.  A  ces  mesures  gcncrales,  nous 
avons  ap})ris  par  le  Courrier  de  Vendredi,  et  on 
nous  a  eonfirme  par  celui  de  Dimanche,  que  tous 
les  Anglois  detenus  a  Lyon  vienent  de  reeevoir 
I'ordre  de  se  transporter  a  Verdun,  dans  le 
plus  court  dclai.  Les  Gazettes  anoneent  qu'en 
Ilollande  on  ne  leur  aecorde  plus  de  passeport, 
qu'un  Embargo  est  mis  a  Genes  qui  les  empeche 
de  partir.  On  eraint  une  mesure  semblable 
pour  la  Suisse  :  voycs  done,  mon  cher  Lord,  ce 
que  vous  voules  faire,  et  puis  qu'il  en  est  encore 
temps,  hates  vous  de  passer  dans  I'Empire,  oii 
vous  seres  en  surete. 

Si  vous  voules  des  informations  plus  precises 
sur  la  Suisse,  adresscs  vous  a  M""  Freudenrieh  a 
Berne ;  il  pourra  mieux  que  persoiie  vous  en 
doner.  Du  reste  ee  n'est  point  yci  mon  opinion 
seule  que  je  vous  comunique  :  c'est  celle  de 
tous  les  gens  sages  que  j'ai  consulte.  Lord 
Beverley  me  eliarge  de  vous  dire  que  des  amis 
comuns  ont  eerit  a  sa  feme  que  le  Due  d'Argyle 
desire  vivement  votre  retour.  Rendes  vous,  My 
Lord,  aux  vceux  d'un  Fere,  et  aux  craintes  de 
vos  amis.  II  leur  faut  bien  du  courage  et  du 
desintcressement  pour  vous  presser  ainsi  de  vous 


526     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

eloigner  d'eux,   lorsque  vous  leur  temoignes  le 
desir  de  vous  raprocher. 

Rien  de  nouveau  dans  notre  ville :  notre 
societe  se  resserre  tons  les  jours,  parce  que  Ton 
part  pour  la  campagne.  Vous  y  faites  et  votre 
ami  M'  Robertson  un  grand  vuide  ;  vous  en 
faites  encore  un  plus  grand  dans  notre  petit 
menage,  ou  nous  nous  faisions  une  douce  habi- 
tude de  vous  voir.  Adieu,  My  Lord ;  adieu,  nos 
bons  et  chers  amis ;  dones  nous  de  vos  nouvelles 
et  faites  nous  part  de  votre  determination. 

Ma  feme  vous  adresse  ses  complimens  les  plus 
affectueux.     I  am,  for  ever, 

Your  most  humble  Serv*, 

Saussure. 

(Addressed)     My  Lord  Jhon  Campbell 

au  faucon 
a  Berne. 

[Translatio7i.] 

Geneva,  13th  June,  1803. 

In  parting  with  you  at  Lausanne,  my  dear  Lord,  I  re- 
tained yet  a  little  hope  of  a  rapprochement  between  your 
government  and  that  of  France  through  the  intervention  of 
Russia.  To-day  we  must  renounce  this.  That  question  put 
by  Fox  in  Parliament,  and  debated  by  Mr.  Pitt  and  your  other 
orators,  was  at  last  withdra^vn  by  Fox  himself.  (They  would 
be  content  to  recognise  on  principle  that  a  powerful  mediation 
was  acceptable,  but  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  limit  it  by 
conditions  which  would  ensure  the  confidence  of  the  nation 
and  its  government.) 

Now  War  is  decided  upon.  The  French  are  in  possession 
of  Hanover ;  there  seems  to  have  been  no  resistance,  and 
the  papers  announce  that  the  Hanoverian  army  is  taken 
captive.  It  is  supposed  that  a  capitulation  has  been  made 
with  the  States  of  the  country.  Added  to  this  we  learn  by 
Friday's  mail,  confirmed  by  that  of  Sunday,  that  all  the 
English  detained  at  Lyon  have  received  the  order  to  betake 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         527 

themselves  to  Verdun  without  delay.  The  Gazettes  report 
that  in  Holland  no  more  passports  are  being  issued  for  them, 
that  an  embargo  has  been  laid  on  Genoa,  forbidding  them  to 
leave  the  city.  Similar  measures  are  feared  for  Switzerland  : 
be  cautious,  therefore,  my  dear  Lord,  and  while  there  is  yet 
time  hasten  across  to  the  Empire,  where  you  are  in  safety. 

If  you  need  more  precise  information  on  Switzerland, 
apply  to  M.  Freudenrich,  at  Berne,  who  can  best  inform 
you.  Besides  this  is  not  only  my  opinion,  but  that  of  all 
the  wise  people  I  have  consulted.  Lord  Beverley  desired 
me  to  tell  you  that  some  mutual  friends  had  written  to  his 
wife  saying  that  the  Duke  of  Argyll  earnestly  wished  your 
return.  Defer,  my  Lord,  to  the  wishes  of  a  father  and  to  the 
anxiety  of  your  friends.  It  needs  great  courage  on  their 
part  to  urge  you  thus  to  go  away  from  them,  when  you 
evince  a  wish  to  join  them. 

Nothing  new  here.  Our  circle  is  narrowing  daily,  every 
one  going  to  the  country.  You  and  Mr.  Robertson  have 
left  a  great  gap  ;  an  even  greater  one  in  our  small  household, 
where  we  had  made  a  pleasant  habit  of  seeing  you.  Adieu, 
my  dear  Lord  ;  adieu,  kind  and  dear  friends  ;  let  us  have  news 
of  j'^ou,  and  pray  acquaint  us  with  your  determination. 

My  wife  sends  her  most  affectionate  compliments.  I  am, 
for  ever, 

Your  most  humble  servant, 

Saussure. 


M.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Geneve,  12  Juillet  [probably  1803]. 

Je  ne  sais  trop,  My  Lord,  si  ma  lettre  vous 
trouvera  encore  a  Zurich  ;  je  n'ai  pas  bien  saisi 
I'ordre  de  votre  marche,  mais  enfin  je  veux  bien 
hazarder  quelques  lignes  pour  m'entretenir  quel- 
ques  momens  avec  vous.  Ma  feme  a  ete  asses 
incomodee  depuis  votre  depart :  elle  a  voulu 
recomencer  les  bains  de  I'Arun,  et  cette  fois 
ils  ne  lui  ont  pas  rcussi ;  ils  lui  ont  attire  une 
fluxion  qui  I'empeche  dc  vous  ecrire.  Elle  me 
charge  de  I'excuser  et  de  la  remplacer  aupres  de 
yous.     Elle  veut  aussi  que  vous  sachies  qu'elle 


528     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

a  fort  bien  compris  votre  lettre,  quoiqu'elle  fut 
ecrite  en  Anglois.  Vous  I'aves  raise  en  gout  de 
cette  langue,  et  elle  s'est  mise  a  I'etudier  tout 
de  bon  depuis  votre  depart. 

Nous  avons  vu  quelques  instans  Mad.  de  St* 
a  son  retour  de  I'lsle  de  S*  Pierre  ;  mais  c'etoit 
en  nombreuse  compagnie,  nous  n'avons  pas  pu 
lui  demander  les  details  du  voiage  qu'elle  a  fait 
avec  vous.  II  m'a  paru  qu'elle  a  ete  fort  sen- 
sible au  voiage  de  votre  ami,  et  qu'elle  a  pris 
fort  a  gre  qu'il  prit  le  chenriin  de  Copet  pour  celui 
d'Yverdun.  Nous  avons  aussi  admire  cette 
marche  nouvelle — je  dis  mal,  nous  I'avons  un 
peu  envie,  et  nous  I'aurions  trouve  tres  naturelle 
si  elle  eut  ramene  Robertson  jusque  ches  nous. 

II  n'est  plus  arrive  de  lettres  pour  vous,  My 
Lord,  depuis  celles  que  je  vous  ai  deja  adressees 
a  Zurich.  S'il  en  arrive  encore  je  vous  les  feral 
passer  a  Francfort,  poste  restante^  mais  je  sup- 
pose qu'aiant  annonce  votre  depart  a  vos  amis 
ils  cesseront  de  vous  ecrire. 

Donnes  moi  s.v.p.  des  nouvelles  d'Invcrary  : 
et  quand  vous  ecrives  dans  ce  pays  la  n'oublies 
pas  de  me  rapeller  a  leur  souvenir. 

(Addressed)     A  My  Lord  Jhon  Campbell, 
poste  restante, 

a  Zurich. 

[Translation.] 

Geneva,  July  I2th  [probably  1803]. 

I  do  not  know,  my  Lord,  whether  my  letter  will  find  you 
still  at  Zurich  ;  I  did  not  quite  gather  the  order  of  your 
journey,  nevertheless  I  will  chance  a  few  lines  to  gossip 
with  you.  My  wife  has  been  rather  ill  since  you  left,  and 
wished  again  to  try  the  baths  of  the  Arun  ;  but  they  did 
not  suit  her,  and  caused  an  indisposition  which  prevents  her 


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MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         529 

writing  to  you.  Sho  begs  me  to  excuse  lier  to  you  and  to 
replace  her.  She  wishes  me  also  to  say  that  she  understood 
your  letter  perfectly,  although  it  was  written  in  English. 
You  have  given  her  a  taste  for  that  language,  and  she  has 
begun  to  study  it  seriously  since  your  departure. 

We  have  seen  Mmc.  de  »Stael  once  since  her  return  from 
the  Isle  de  St.  Pierre,  but  always  with  many  others  present, 
80  we  have  been  unable  to  ask  her  for  details  of  the  journey 
she  made  with  you.  It  seemed  to  me  that  she  much  appreci- 
ated your  friend's  journej',  and  that  she  was  very  pleased  that 
he  passed  by  Coppet  to  go  to  Yverdun.  We  too  admired  this 
new  departure — indeed  we  rather  envied  her,  and  should  have 
thought  it  quite  natural  had  she  brought  Robertson  to  see  us. 

No  letters  have  come  for  you  since  those  I  forwarded  to 
Zurich.  If  any  come  I  Mill  frank  them  to  Erancfort,  posle 
rcstante,  but  I  expect  having  announced  your  departure 
3four  friends  will  cease  writing  to  you. 

Please  give  me  news  of  Inveraray,  and  when  you  write  to 
that  country  do  not  forget  to  recall  me  to  our  friends  there. 


M.  et  Mme.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

[1803.] 

Je  ne  saurois  asses,  Milord,  vous  exprimer 
combien  je  suis  sensible  a  votre  souvenir  et  votrc 
Amitie.  Vos  lettres  sont  on  ne  pent  pas  plus 
Aimables ;  elles  m'aident  k  vous  suivre  dans 
votre  long  voyage,  et  me  prouvcnt  aussi  que 
de  nouveaux  objets  ne  vous  font  point  oublicr 
vos  Amis. 

Vous  voila  done  en  Engleterre — ^au  milieu  de 
votre  Famille,  pres  de  tout  ce  que  vous  aimes. 
Quoique  la  guerre  ait  derange  vos  projets,  vous 
aurcs  pardoiie  aux  circonstances  en  faveur  du 
plaisir  de  vous  retrouver  dans  votre  Patrie. 
C'est  un  sentiment  qui  ne  perd  jamais  son 
empire,  surtout  dans  une  ame  come  la  votre. 
Bientot  vous  ires  en  Ecosse.  Je  sens  toute  la  joie 
du  Due  en  revoyant  son  Fils,  son  cher  John ; 


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530     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

j'espcre  qu'il  trouvera  votre  sante  nieilleure,  et 
que  la  paix  (on  comence  a  en  parler  serieuse- 
ment)  il  vous  permettra  de  revenir  en  Suisse 
achever  de  la  retablir.  M^  Robertson  vous 
accompagnera,  et  ses  sentiments  deja  emousse 
par  le  temps  et  I'absence  nous  permeteront  de 
le  voir  davantage.  S'il  est  aupres  de  vous,  dites 
lui  que  rien  ne  m'empcehera  jamais  de  sentir 
tout  ce  qu'il  vaut.  La  belle  Embassadrice 
meurt  d'enui  et  de  tristesse ;  elle  passe  sa  vie 
entre  Copet  et  Geneve,  et  ne  trouve  nulle  part 
les  ressources  qu'il  faut  a  son  Coeur  et  a  son 
esprit.  Elle  a  ete  fort  peniblement  occupee  de 
M""  Christin,  qui  appres  avoir  passe  ici  quelques 
semaines  dans  la  plus  affreuse  prison  du  Monde 
est  parti  hier  pour  Paris  escorte  de  deux  Gen- 
darmes. Nous  partageons  tons  son  Malheur. 
Come  on  a  rien  trouve  a  sa  charge  dans  ses 
papiers,  et  qu'il  se  sait  iiiocent,  on  pent  se 
flatter  de  le  voir  bientot  rendu  a  la  liberte. 

Le  jeune  M'"  Persi  est  etabli  bien  melancolique- 
ment  a  Verdun  :  felicites  vous.  Milord,  d'avoir  pris 
une  autre  route  ;  nous  serious  trop  malheureux  si 
nous  avions  de  vous  voir  partager  son  exil.  Ses 
Parens  sont  affliges  de  cette  separation  :  coment 
suporter  un  mal  dont  on  ne  prevoit  pas  le  terme  ! 
Toute  la  famille  de  Milord  Beverley  est  interes- 
sante.  Milady  est  si  bone,  si  gaie,  si  douce,  et  si 
Aimable ;  ses  filles  sont  parfaitement  elevees,  des 
talens  agreables  reunis  a  une  simplicite  si  rarre 
et  si  precieuse.  Saussure  les  voit  beaucoup, 
et  moi  le  plus  souvent  possible.  lis  sont  a 
Secheron.  Nous  n'avons  pas  de  cheveaux,  et  les 
grandes  chaleurs  ont  ete  si  fortes,  si  longues, 
que  votre  Amie  la  douce  paresse  est  aussi  devenue 
la  Mienne — a  8  heures  de  soir  je  comencois  seule- 
ment  a  exister.    Je  prenois  allors  le  bras  de 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         531 

quclqii'un,  et  j'allois  respirer  I'air  sur  la  treille 
ou  a  Plain  Palais,  rcservant  pour  une  autre 
saison  les  plaisirs  de  la  societe.  Je  ne  vous  par- 
lerai  done  point,  Milord,  d'un  monde  ou  je  n'ai 
pas  vccu,  mais  je  vous  dirai  que  Mesdames 
Sellon  demande  toujours  de  vos  nouvelles  avec 
empressement.  Nous  avons  bien  souvent  parle 
de  vous  et  de  votre  Ami ;  nous  regrettons  de  ne 
pas  vous  associer  a  nos  projets  de  courses  pour 
le  mois  de  7bre.  C'est  le  plus  beau  mois  dans  ce 
Pays,  et  nous  en  profiterons  pour  aller  quelques 
fois  parcourir  des  sites  nouveaux  pour  nous. 

Demain  nous  devons  prendre  le  the  a  une  Cam- 
pagne  de  Mad.  de  Miroaux  :  elle  n'est  pas  habitee  ; 
on  dit  le  local  charmant.  Nous  avons  eu  un 
moment  I'idee  d'aller  passer  un  mois  a  Epenen. 
Celle  de  nos  bois  se  presentoit  ici  avec  avantage 
a  mon  imagination.  J'aurois  voulu  partir  tout  de 
suite,  mais  Saussure  avait  quelques  affaires,  et 
le  temps  necessaire  pour  les  terminer  m'a  done 
celui  de  changer  de  projet :  je  reste  ici ;  j'ai  repris 
mes  creons,  et  le  jour  n'est  pas  asses  long  pour 
tout  ce  que  je  voudrois  faire.  Me  pardoneres 
vous.  Milord,  de  vous  entretenir  de  details  si  peu 
fait  pour  vous  ?  Et  occupe  come  vous  allcs  I'etre, 
lires  vous  ma  lettre  ?  Pouves  vous  y  repondre  ? 
Vous  souviendres  vous  longtemps  de  deux  Amis 
pour  qui  votre  sante,  votre  bonheur,  vos  plaisirs, 
seront  toujours  du  plus  vif,  du  plus  grand 
interct  ?  Si  une  lettre  vous  parvient  a  Londres, 
et  que  vous  soycs  prcs  de  Lord  Lome,  vouUics 
me  rappeller  a  son  souvenir. 

Je  cede  la  plume  a  Saussure,  qui  veut  achever 
de  remplir  mon  papier. 

[Change  of  haiidwriting.] 

P.S. — La  montre  de  M'  Robertson  est  finie ; 


532     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

on  cherchera  une  occasion  pour  I'envoier  a 
Londres ;  j'ai  done  votre  adresse  dies  Mess. 
Harris,  Farquhar  &  C°,  ou  elle  sera  deposee. 
M""  Robertson  n'a  qu'a  doner  ordre  a  vos  Ban- 
quiers  de  la  recevoir  pour  son  conipte  et  de  la 
paier. 

Vous  ne  doutes  pas,  My  Lord,  du  plaisir  que 
nous  font  vos  lettres.  Nous  avons  eu  tant 
d'inquietude — sur  votre  sort  et  celui  de  votre 
ami,  que  nous  avions  reallement  besoin  de  ce 
dedomagement.  Faute  de  mieux,  je  vous 
fclicite  d'avoir  fait  route  sur  la  Danube,  et 
d'avoir  pris  une  idee  de  ce  pays  la  :  j 'imagine 
qu'en  partant  de  Viene  vous  aures  eu  le  temps 
de  voir  Dresden  et  Berlin  ;  ce  sont  les  deux  Villes 
les  plus  interessantes  de  ces  contrees  ;  mais  vous 
aures  passe  partout  si  rapidement  que  je  ne 
doute  pas  que  vous  n'eprouvies  le  besoin  de 
les  revoir  encore.  Je  compte  done  sur  votre 
curiosite  pour  vous  ramener  sur  le  Continent,  et 
beaucoup  sur  votre  amitie  et  sur  votre  souvenir 
pour  vous  rapeller  en  Suisse. 

Je  pense  que  vous  vous  arreteres  pen  de 
temps  a  Londres  dans  ce  moment,  et  que  vous 
vous  hateres  d'arriver  a  Inverary  :  presentes, 
My  Lord,  mes  homages  respectueux  a  My  Lord 
Due  et  a  vos  scEurs ;  dites  a  My  Lord  Lome  que 
nous  nous  occupons  souvent  de  lui  et  que  nous 
ne  desesperons  pas  de  le  revoir. 

Dites  a  M""  Robertson  qu'il  est  bien  heureux 
de  s'etre  tire  de  Baden.  M*"  Percy,  Edgworth, 
&  many  others  sont  tristement  a  Verdun  :  je 
ne  me  consolerais  pas  de  vous  y  voir  detenu. 
Tons  les  Anglois  qui  etoient  en  Suisse  I'ont 
quitte.  Mad*'  de  St.  ne  va  plus  s'y  etablir.  Elle 
fait  yci  de  frequentes  courses,  mais  pas  de  longs 
sejours. 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         533 

[Translation.] 

[1803.] 

I  can  hardly  toll  you,  ray  Lord,  how  sensible  I  am  of  your 
remembrance  and  friendship.  Your  letters  are  as  kind  as 
tiiey  could  possibly  be  ;  they  help  me  to  follow  you  in  your 
long  join-ney,  and  prove  also  that  fresh  interests  do  not 
make  you  forget  your  friends. 

You  are  then  in  England,  amidst  your  family,  among  all 
that  you  love.  Although  the  war  has  upset  your  plans,  you 
will  pardon  it  for  the  pleasure  of  finding  yourself  once  more 
in  your  country.  It  is  a  feeling  that  never  loses  its  hold, 
above  all  on  a  mind  like  yours.  Soon  you  will  go  to  Scotland. 
I  can  feel  all  the  joy  of  the  Duke  in  beholding  once  more  his 
dear  son  John  ;  I  hope  he  will  find  your  health  is  better, 
and  that  peace  (of  which  thi^y  begin  to  speak  seriously)  will 
soon  allow  you  to  return  to  Switzerland  finally  to  re-establish. 
Mr.  Robertson  will  accompany  you,  and  his  feelings  modified 
by  time  and  absence  will  permit  us  to  see  more  of  him.  If 
he  is  with  you,  ti'U  him  that  nothing  will  prevent  me  hence- 
forward appreciating  him  at  his  true  worth.  The  fair  Am- 
bassadress is  dying  of  ennui  and  sadness  ;  she  passes  her  time 
between  Coppet  and  Geneva,  and  finds  nowhere  the  resources 
demanded  by  hvr  heart  and  her  wit.  She  is  much  wonied 
about  Mr.  C'hristin,  who,  after  having  spent  some  weeks  here 
in  the  most  frightful  of  prisons,  left  for  Paris  yesterday 
accompanied  by  two  gendarmes.  We  all  share  his  affliction. 
As  nothing  against  him  has  been  found  in  his  papers,  and 
he  knows  himself  to  be  innocent,  we  may  flatter  ourselves 
that  we  shall  soon  see  him  restored  to  liberty. 

Young  Mr.  Percy  has  been  interned  sadly  enough  at  Verdun : 
you  may  congratulate  yourself,  my  Lord,  on  having  taken 
another  route  ;  we  should  be  too  unfortunate  if  you  shared 
his  exile.  His  relations  are  afflicted  by  this  separation : 
how  can  one  support  an  ill  the  end  of  which  one  cannot 
foresee  ?  All  Lord  Beverley's  family  are  interesting.  My 
Lady  is  so  kind,  so  sweet,  so  gay,  and  so  amiable  ;  her 
daughters  are  perfectly  well  bred,  with  agreeable  talents 
combined  with  a  rare  and  precious  sim])licity.  Saussure 
sees  a  great  deal  of  them,  and  I  do  as  often  as  possible. 
They  are  at  Secheron.  We  have  no  horses,  and  the  heat  has 
been  so  fierce  and  continuous  that  your  friend  Sweet  Idleness 
has  become  also  mine — it  is  only  at  eight  in  the  evening  that 
I    begin    to  exist.     I    then   take   somebody's   arm    and   go 


534     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

to  take  a  breath  of  air  under  the  trellis  or  at  Plainpalais, 
reserving  the  pleasures  of  society  for  another  season.  I  won't 
speak  to  you,  therefore,  my  Lord,  of  a  circle  which  I  have 
not  frequented,  but  I  will  tell  you  that  Mesdames  Sellon 
always  ask  eagerly  for  news  of  you.  We  very  often  speak  of 
you  and  your  friend,  and  we  are  sorry  that  you  cannot  join 
in  our  excursions  for  the  month  of  September.  It  is  the 
best  month  in  these  parts,  and  we  shall  take  advantage  of 
it  to  visit  several  spots  new  to  us. 

To-morrow  we  are  going  to  have  tea  at  a  country  place 
belonging  to  Mme.  de  Miroaux  :  it  is  not  occupied  ;  they 
say  the  place  is  charming.  For  a  moment  we  thought  of 
passing  a  month  at  Epenen.  But  the  thought  of  our  woods 
presented  itself  pleasantly  to  my  imagination.  I  wanted  to 
go  at  once,  but  Saussure  had  some  business,  and  this  gave 
me  time  enough  to  change  my  mind  :  I  remain  here  ;  I 
have  taken  up  my  pencils  again,  and  the  day  is  not  long 
enough  for  all  that  I  want  to  do.  You  will  pardon  me,  my 
Lord,  for  bothering  you  with  details  so  little  suited  to  you  ? 
And  occupied  as  you  will  be,  will  you  read  my  letter  ?  Will 
you  be  able  to  reply  to  it  ?  Will  you  remember  for  long  two 
friends  who  will  always  have  the  liveliest,  greatest  interest 
for  your  health,  your  happiness,  and  your  pleasures  ?  If 
a  letter  reaches  you  in  London,  and  you  are  near  Lord  Lome, 
recall  me  to  his  remembrance. 

I  give  up  my  pen  to  Saussure,  who  wishes  to  fill  up  my 
paper. 

[Change  of  handwriting.] 

P.S. — Mr.  Robertson's  watch  is  finished  :  we  are  looking 
for  an  opportunity  to  send  it  to  London  ;  I  have  given  your 
address  c/o  Messrs.  Harris,  Farquhar  &  Co.,  where  it  will 
be  left.  Mr.  Robertson  has  only  to  give  the  order  to  your 
bankers  to  take  it  in  on  his  account  and  to  pay  for  it. 

You  cannot  imagine,  my  Lord,  the  pleasure  your  letters 
procure  us.  We  have  been  so  much  worried  about  you 
and  your  friend  that  we  really  need  this  compensation. 
On  the  whole  I  congratulate  you  for  having  travelled  by  the 
Danube,  and  gleaned  some  ideas  of  that  country.  I  imagine 
that,  on  leaving  Vienna,  you  will  have  had  the  time  to  see 
Dresden  and  Berlin.  They  are  the  two  most  interesting 
towns  in  those  parts,  but  you  will  have  traversed  them  so 
rapidly  that  I  don't  doubt  you  will  feel  the  need  of  seeing 
them  again.     I  count  then  on  your  curiosity  to  bring  you 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         535 

back  to  the  Continent,  and  much  on  your  friendship  and 
your  remembrance  to  bring  you  back  to  Switzerland. 

I  suppose  you  will  stop  but  a  short  time  in  London,  and 
that  you  will  hasten  to  reach  Inveraray  :  present,  my  Lord, 
my  respects  to  my  Lord  Duke  and  your  sisters.  Tell  my 
Lord  Lome  tiiat  we  think  a  great  deal  about  him,  and  that 
we  don't  despair  of  seeing  him  again. 

Tell  Mr.  Robertson  that  he  was  lucky  to  get  out  of  Baden. 
Mr.  Percy,  Edgworth,  and  many  others  are  languishing  at 
Verdun  :  I  should  not  care  to  see  you  detained  there.  All 
the  English  who  were  in  Switzerland  have  left.  Mme.  de  St. 
is  not  going  to  live  there  any  more.  She  often  comes  here, 
but  makes  no  long  stay. 


M.  et  Mme.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell, 

Je  ne  prens  point  mon  parti  d'etre  oublier  de 
vous,  Milord.  Nous  avons  su  par  Milady  Beverley 
que  vous  vous  eties  embarque  a  Housain  avec 
Mesdames  Berry,  et  que  vous  eties  tres  heu- 
reusement  arrive  a  Londres.  Nous  vous  sup- 
posons  actuellement  en  Ecosse,  reuni  a  votre 
Famille,  et  bien  occupe  des  affaires  de  votre 
Regiment  et  de  tout  ce  qui  a  rapport  a  la  guerre. 
Puis-je  esperer  que  vous  poures  me  consacrer 
quelques  momens  pour  me  doner  les  details  de 
votre  voyage,  de  votre  sejour  a  Londres,  et  de 
la  vie  que  vous  menes  appresent.  S'il  est  naturel 
qu'au  milieu  de  tant  de  choses  importantes  vous 
perdies  de  vue  vos  amis  de  Suisse,  et  I'interet 
que  vous  leur  aves  inspires,  il  ne  leur  est  point 
aise  de  ne  pas  penser  a  vous,  et  de  ne  pas  sou- 
haiter  vivement  d'avoir  des  nouvelles  de  votre 
sante — n'aura-t-elle  pas  souffert  des  fatigues  d'un 
long  voyage,  et  n'aures  vous  point  retrouve  avec 
votre  Patrie  les  Maux  qui  vous  avoient  engage 
a  la  quitter  ?  M""  Robertson  est  il  encore  avec 
vous,  ou  s'en  est  il  separc  pour  se  reunir  aussi  a 


536     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

ses  amis  ?  Faites  lui  parvenir,  Milord,  I'expres- 
sion  de  notre  souvenir;  je  dois  placer  ici  celui  de 
Mad.  de  Stacl  pour  les  deux  amis.  Elle  avoit 
laisse  I'ordre  a  Coppet,  en  partant  pour  Paris  il 
y  a  deux  mois,  de  lui  envoyer  ses  lettres  ;  sans 
doute  qu'elle  n'en  a  point  re^u  de  vous,  puisque 
M''  Coinder  est  venu  tres  souvent  ici  s'informer 
de  vos  nouvelles  afin  de  pouvoir  lui  en  doner. 
On  la  dit  en  route  pour  Berlin,  ou  on  ignore  si 
elle  passera  I'hiver  :  elle  n'a  de  gout  que  pour 
Paris,  ou  pour  Londres ;  les  deux  villes  lui  sont 
egalement  interdites.  M'"  Necker  a  loue  ici  un 
fort  bel  appartement.  Je  voudrois  que  sa  fille  sut 
y  vivre  avec  lui  et  se  contenter  des  ressources 
que  pent  lui  offrir  Geneve ;  elle  y  trouveroit 
quelques  Families  etrangeres  qui  augmenteront 
encore  le  mouvement  de  la  Societe.  Milady 
Beverley  ne  va  que  pour  y  conduire  ses  filles ; 
elles  sont  deja  habituees  a  un  plus  grand  theatre, 
mais  leur  age  et  la  simplicite  qu'on  a  su  allier 
a  leur  tres  boiie  education  les  dispose  a  jouir  de 
tout  ce  qui  se  presente. 

Ces  Dames  se  sont  fort  liees  a  Secheron  avec 
une  Russe,  Mad.  de  Koscheloff ;  elle  a  une  niece 
de  17  ans,  et  en  sa  faveur  elle  veut  doner  beaucoup 
de  bals.  Quant  a  Milord  Beverley,  s'il  n'avoit 
consulte  que  son  gout  il  auroit  loue  une  Campagne 
pour  y  passer  I'hiver  ;  il  craint  le  froid  et  ne  veut 
pas  sortir.  On  espere  le  retour  de  M""  Percy  dans 
sa  Famille  ;  vous  saves  qu'il  est  a  Verdun  ;  je  crois 
que  Mad.  de  Stael  s'est  fort  occupee  a  Paris  des 
moyens  de  lui  faire  sortir.  Que  vous  dirais-je, 
Milord,  de  la  Societe  que  vous  conoisies  ?  Elle 
ne  fournit  rien  de  nouveau  et  qui  puisse  vous 
interesser.  Vous  n'en  etes  surement  point  oublie  ; 
et  M"''^  Sellon  me  parlent  tres  souvent  de  vous. 
Elles  se  joignent  a  Moi  pour  trouver  votre  silense 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         537 

bien  long.  Beaucoup  de  gens  sont  encore  a  la 
Campagne ;  la  societe  ne  sera  reunie  qu'a  la  fin 
de  I'anee.  Je  ne  sais  si  vous  vous  souvenes  d'une 
Mad.  Boutems  que  vous  aves  vue  quclques  fois, 
et  pour  laquelle  vous  aves  bien  vous  charger  d'un 
petit  paquet  de  linge  a  I'adresse  de  son  Fils,  M'" 
Boutems.  Ce  paquet  a  etc  remis  par  moi  a 
votre  valet  de  chambre  Anglois.  II  promit  de 
le  remettre  a  son  arrivee  a  Londres.  M"" 
Boutems  va  revenir  ici  et  ne  I'a  point  regu,  mais 
je  joindrai  a  cette  lettre  I'adresse  d'un  de  ses 
Parens  a  qui  vous  voudres  bien,  Milord,  envoyer 
le  paquet  s'il  a  ete  oublie  jusqu'a  present.  Je 
vous  demande  mille  pardons  de  vous  ennuier  a 
ce  sujet. 

Vous  me  gronderiez,  Milord,  si  je  ne  vous  disois 
rien  de  ma  sante ;  elle  est  tres  bone,  et  je  serois 
beaucoup  plus  en  etat  que  ce  Printems  de  courir 
les  Montagues  s'il  en  ctoit  encore  la  saison.  Je 
n'ai  point  pris  de  remede ;  le  temps  et  quelques 
menagements  me  rendent  journellement  tout  ce 
que  je  puis  desirer.  Je  crains  le  froid  ;  nos  hivers 
sont  terribles.  Mais  je  ne  m'y  exposerai  pas; 
mes  conoissances  ont  promis  de  se  reunir  ches 
Moi  aussi  souvent  que  je  le  voudrois.  Que 
n'etes  vous  de  la  Nombre,  Milord ;  vous  auries 
moins  de  plaisir,  Mais  la  vie  de  ce  Pays  parois- 
soit  si  bien  vous  convenirque  je  regrette  souvent 
que  vous  ayes  ete  force  d'y  renoncer — avant  d'en 
avoir  tire  tout  le  parti  que  vous  en  esperies. 
Voila  M""  de  Saussure  qui  m'oblige  de  lui  ccder 
la  plume ;  il  veut  aussi  vous  adresser  quelques 
lignes,  et  ne  se  fie  point  a  Moi  pour  tout  ce  qu'il 
a  a  vous  dire. 

[Change  of  handwriting.] 

Don't  be  afraid,   my  dear  Lord — I  have  not 

VOL.  II.  14 


538     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

many  things  to  tell  you,  &  after  this  long  Mad. 
de  Saussure's  epistle,  I  shall  not  teaze  you  any 
longer,  but  desire  you  to  present  my  respectfull 
compliments  to  his  Grace,  Lord  Lome,  &  the 
rest  of  the  family.  If  you  are  not  too  much 
engaged  with  your  military  preparations,  I 
should  be  much  obliged  to  you  if  you  would 
give  me  an  account  of  your  journey,  arrival  at 
Inverary,  &  des  faits  et  gestes  de  votre  ami 
Robertson. 

Your  escape  from  Baden,  his  confinement, 
would  afford  ample  a  matter  to  a  novel,  & 
might  employ  your  leasure  at  Inverary.  Adieu, 
My  dear  Lord.     Adieu. 

Valeas,  valeas — et  non  amas. 

Geneve,  14  Novembre  [1803]. 

P.S. — Cy  joint  I'adresse  oii  Ton  vous  prie  de 
faire  remettre  le  paquet  de  linges  dont  votre 
valet  de  chambre  s'etoit  charge  :  a  Mad^  Achard 
nee  Boutems,  Great  Ormond  Street,  Queen 
Square. 

[Translation.] 

I  do  not  want  to  be  forgotten  by  you,  my  Lord.  We 
heard  from  Milady  Beverley  that  you  had  embarked  at 
Housain  with  the  ladies  Berry,  and  that  you  had  arrived  safely 
in  London.  We  imagine  you  now  in  Scotland,  reunited  to 
your  family,  and  much  occupied  with  your  regiment  and  with 
your  military  preparations.  May  I  hope  that  you  will  find 
time  to  spare  a  few  moments  to  give  me  some  details  of 
your  journey,  of  your  stay  in  London,  and  of  the  life  you  are 
leading  at  present  ?  If  it  is  natural  that  in  the  midst  of  so 
many  important  things  you  lose  sight  of  your  Swiss  friends 
and  of  the  interest  you  inspired  in  them,  it  is  not  so  easy  not 
to  think  of  you,  nor  to  wish  eagerly  for  news  of  your  health. 
Did  it  suffer  from  the  efifects  of  the  journey  ?  and  did  your 
return  to  your  country  cause  a  return  of  the  suffering  which 
had  induced  you  to  leave  it  ?     Is  Mr.  Robertson  still  with  you  ? 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         539 

or  has  he  also  rejoined  liis  friends  ?  Pray  remember  us  to 
him — I  must  also  here  add  the  same  messages  from  Mme.  de 
ytael  for  the  two  friends.  She  had  left  directions  at  Coppet, 
on  leaving  for  Paris  two  months  ago,  for  her  letters  to  be  sent 
on.  Probably  she  has  received  none  from  you,  since  M' 
Coinder  lias  been  here  often  to  ask  for  news  of  you  so  as 
to  be  able  to  tell  her.  She  is  said  to  be  on  her  way  to  Berlin, 
where  we  do  not  know  whether  she  will  spend  the  winter  : 
she  has  taste  for  Paris  only,  or  for  London,  both  cities  being 
equally  forbidden  to  her.  M'  Necker  has  taken  a  very 
fine  apartment  here.  I  wish  his  daughter  knew  how  to  live 
with  him  and  could  content  herself  with  the  resources  that 
Geneva  can  offer  her.  She  would  lind  a  few  foreign  families 
who  would  enliven  the  society.  Milady  Beverley  only  goes 
out  for  the  sake  of  her  daughters  ;  they  are  already  accus- 
tomed to  a  larger  sphere,  but  their  age  and  their  simplicity 
added  to  a  good  education  dispose  them  to  enjoy  everything. 

These  ladies  have  made  great  friends  at  Secheron  with  a 
Russian,  Mme.  de  Koscheloff,  who  has  a  niece  of  17  years  old, 
for  whose  sake  she  means  to  give  a  number  of  balls.  As  to 
Milord  Beverley,  had  he  consulted  his  own  taste,  he  would 
have  rented  a  place  in  the  country  for  the  winter.  He  feels  the 
cold  and  dislikes  going  out.  They  hope  for  the  return  of  Mr. 
Percy  :  you  know  he  is  at  Verdun.*  1  believe  Mad.  da  Stael 
did  all  she  could  in  Paris  to  get  him  out.  What  shall  I  tell 
you,  Milord,  about  the  society  which  you  knew  ?  There  is 
nothing  new  to  interest  you.  You  are  certainly  not  for- 
gotten ;  the  Misses  Sellon  often  speak  to  me  about  you. 
They  agree  with  me  in  thinking  your  silence  a  very  long  one. 
Many  people  are  still  in  the  country  :  society  will  not  be 
completely  reunited  till  the  end  of  the  year.  I  wonder  if 
you  remember  a  Mme.  Boutems  wiiom  you  saw  sometimes, 
and  for  whom  you  kindly  undertook  to  take  over  a  small  packet 
of  linen  addressed  to  her  son,  M'  Boutems.  I  gave  the 
packet  to  your  valet,  who  promised  to  deliver  it  on  arriving 
in  London.  M'  Boutems  is  returning  here,  and  he  has  never 
received  the  packet,  but  I  enclose  tlie  address  of  one  of  his 
relatives  :  will  you  kindly,  my  Lord,  send  the  packet  to  him 
if  it  has  been  forgotten  up  to  the  present  ?  A  thousand 
pardons  for  troubling  you  on  this  subject. 

You  would  scold  me,  my  Lord,  if  I  told  j'ou  nothing  of 
my  own  health  ;  it  is  very  good,  and  1  should  be  in  a  far  better 
state  than  the  spring  to  climb  the  mountains  if  it  were  the 

♦  He  had  been  arrested  by  Bonaparte's  order. 


540     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

season  for  doing  so.  I  have  taken  no  remedies  :  time  and  a 
few  precautions  are  helping  me.  I  dread  the  cold  ;  our  winters 
are  terrible.  But  I  will  not  expose  myself,  my  friends  having 
promised  to  come  to  me  as  often  as  I  wish.  Would  that 
you  were  of  the  number,  my  Lord  ;  it  would  not  be  so  amusing 
for  you,  but  the  life  here  seemed  to  suit  you  so  well  that 
I  often  regret  you  were  obliged  to  give  it  up — before  having 
derived  all  the  benefit  you  anticipated  from  it.  Here  is 
IVf  de  Saussure  obliging  me  to  yield  up  my  pen  to  him  that 
he  may  add  a  few  lines  ;  he  does  not  trust  me  to  say  all  he 
wants  to  say. 

[Change  of  handwriting.^ 

Don't  be  afraid,  my  dear  Lord — I  have  not  many  things  to 
tell  you,  and  after  this  long  Mme.  de  Saussure's  epistle,  I  shall 
not  tease  you  any  longer,  but  desire  you  to  present  my  respect- 
ful compliments  to  His  Grace,  Lord  Lome,  and  the  rest  of  the 
family.  If  you  are  not  too  much  engaged  with  your  military 
preparations,  I  should  be  much  obliged  to  you  if  you  would 
give  an  account  of  your  journey,  arrival  at  Inveraray,  and 
of  the  whereabouts  of  Mr.  Robertson. 

Your  escape  from  Baden,  his  confinement,  Avould  afford 
ample  matter  for  a  novel,  and  might  employ  your  leisure  at 
Inveraray.     Adieu,  my  dear  Lord,  adieu. 

Valeas,  valeas — et  non  amas. 

Geneva,  \4th  November  [1803]. 

P.S. — Enclosed  the  address  to  which  you  are  begged  to 
send  the  packet  of  linen  which  your  valet  promised  to  deliver  : 
Madame  Achard  nee  Boutems,  Great  Ormond  Street,  Queen's 
Square. 


M.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Geneve,  24  7*  1804. 

II  y  a  un  siecle,  mon  cher  Lord,  que  nous 
n'avons  re9u  de  vos  nouvelles  ;  tous  les  jours 
vos  coiioissances  et  vos  amis  m'en  demandent 
et  s'etonent  de  votre  silence.  Mad.  de  Stael 
entre  autres,  dont  vous  conoissez  I'activite  et  la 
facilite  a  mettre  la  main  a  la  plume,  se  plaint 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         541 

amerement  de  vous.  P^lle  me  charge  (entre 
autres  choses)  de  vous  dire,  que  si  les  maitres 
de  ce  monde  n'y  mettoient  obstacle,  elle  iroit  a 
Londres  vous  reprocher  votre  ingratitude. 

Mais  pour  cet  hyver,  elle  prendra  la  route  de 
ritalie.  Elle  emmene  avec  elle  un  Professeur 
Allemand  qui  a  beaucoup  de  conoissances,  et  qui 
servira  d'Instituteur  a  ses  deux  fils.  Constant 
ne  I'accompagne  pas.  Elle  est  encore  fort 
affectce  de  la  mort  de  son  Pere ;  elle  regrette  en 
lui  un  ami,  un  protecteur,  un  point  d'appui,  et 
elle  en  sent  le  besoin.  Peu  de  gens  croient  a 
sa  sensibilite,  mais  quant  a  moi,  elle  m'est 
demontree,  et  je  n'ai  jamais  doute  de  la  bonte 
de  son  coeur.  Nous  parlous  souvent  ensemble 
de  vous,  mon  cher  Lord,  et  nous  regrettons  les 
heures  que  nous  avons  passe  a  Copet. 

Ma  feme  vous  a  mande  dans  le  temps  le 
mariage  de  M"®  Victoire  ;  il  a  surpris  tout  le 
monde — on  n'imaginoit  pas  qu'elle  put  s'acco- 
moder  d'un  marri  de  50  ans.  Mais  pour  ceux 
qui  coiioissoient  toute  sa  raison,  on  a  trouve 
qu'un  home  de  cet  age,  avec  de  la  naissance,  de 
la  fortune  et  un  esprit  cultive,  pouvoit  fort  bien 
lui  convenir.  II  vient  de  la  conduire  a  Paris, 
oil  elle  passera  I'hyver.  II  nous  promet  de  nous 
I'amencr  au  mois  de  fevrier.  Dii  rcstc  elle  vivra 
dans  une  belle  terre  a  5  lieues  de  Turin.  Son 
marri  lui  arrange  un  jardin  a  I'Angloise,  et  elle 
est  toute  occupce  de  ce  soin.  Pour  1 'aider  et  la 
diriger,  je  lui  ai  prette  I'ouvrage  de  Price;  mais 
come  il  ne  m'appartient  pas,  elle  me  charge  dc 
lui  en  procurer  un  Exemplaire.  Je  m'adresse  a 
vous,  my  Lord,  pour  cela.  En  voicy  le  titre  : 
*'  An  Essay  on  the  picturesque  as  compared 
with  the  Sublime  &ca  by  Udevald  Price  Esq'" 
with  addition  London  Newbond  Street  1796." 


542     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Be  so  good  as  to  send  it  to   me  by  the   first 
opportunity. 

A  propos  de  mariage,  parlez  moi  done  de 
celui  de  Robertson  ;  il  nous  semble  qu'il  soit 
bien  hate  de  prendre  des  chaines,  avec  le  projet 
qu'il  avoit  de  voiager  come  le  Sage  Ulysse  pour 
conoitre  les  moeurs  et  les  usages  du  Continent. 
Faites  lui  s.v.p.  nos  complimens  de  felicitation, 
mais  dites  lui  qu'il  est  engage  d'honeur  a  revenir 
a  la  paix,  sur  les  bords  du  lac  de  Geneve  ;  nous 
avons  encore  bien  des  choses  a  vous  faire  voir 
dans  notre  beau  pays,  et  puisque  vous  nous  en 
donnez  I'esperance,  je  compte,  my  Lord,  que  vous 
I'amenerez  avec  vous. 

Lady  Beverley  a  eu  la  bonte  de  me  doner  des 
nouvelles  de  my  Lord  Lome  ;  dites  lui  s.v.p.  que 
je  suis  bien  fourni  de  son  souvenir.  Pent  etre, 
etes  vous  dans  ce  moment  cy  en  Ecosse ;  dans 
ce  cas  je  vous  prie  de  presenter  mes  homages 
aux  habitans  d'Inverary.  Si  vous  en  avez  une 
vue  je  vous  prie  de  I'envoyer  a  ma  feme  ;  je  lui 
en  ai  tant  de  fois  parle,  qu'elle  desire  d'en  avoir 
un  dessein.  J'en  ai  vu  une  gravure  (je  crois) 
dans  Pennant's  toiu%  mais  je  suppose  que  my 
Lord  Due  I'aura  fait  graver  et  qu'il  en  aura  a 
sa  disposition.  Je  n'ai  point  habite  ma  petite 
ferme  d'Yenex  cette  annee.  Mad.  de  Saussure 
ne  pent  pas  s'eloigner  de  son  medecin  :  sans 
avoir  de  maladie,  elle  a  des  maux  qui  demandent 
ses  soins.  Elle  est  actuellement  a  Plainpalais 
dans  un  jardin  ou  elle  est  allee  prendre  les  bains 
et  changer  d'air  :  elle  y  a  porte  des  livres 
Anglois  et  son  Dictionaire ;  ainsi  vous  pouvez 
lui  ecrire  dans  cette  langue  et  compter  d'etre 
entendu. 

Du  reste  nous  n'avons  rien  de  nouveau  a  vous 
mander.     Lord  Beverley  et  son  fils  s'arrangent 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         543 

pour  passer  I'hyver  avec  nous.  Deux  ou  trois 
autres  jeunes  Anglois  y  sont  aussi  en  surveillance. 
Nous  avons  depuis  8  jours  la  Duchesse  de  Cour- 
lande,  deux  de  ses  filles  et  une  suite  tres  nom- 
breuse — avec  elle  la  Duchesse  de  Belnionte  et 
ses  trois  fils.  On  leur  done  des  soirees  et  des 
bals  ;  aprcs  quoi  tout  cela  nous  quittera  pour 
passer  en  Italic.  Les  Russes  nous  ont  quitte ; 
au  depart  dc  la  legation  de  Paris,  ils  ont  passe 
en  Suisse.  Nous  somes  places  yci  come  dans 
une  lanterne  magique :  on  nous  apparoit  un 
instant  et  puis  Ton  disparoit.  Mais  Ton  revient 
quelqucfois ;  et  nous  esperons,  mon  cher  Lord, 
que  vous  en  aurez  I'occasion  et  le  desir. 

Je  suis,  My  Lord,  avec  tous  les  sentimens  que 
je  vous  ai  voue, 

Votre  tr.  h.  &  t.  obeiss*  Servif, 

DE  Saussure  de  Mongs. 

[Translation.] 

Geneva,  2'kth  Sept.,   1804. 

It  is  an  age,  ray  dear  Lord,  since  we  had  news  of  you ; 
every  day  your  friends  and  acquaintances  ask  for  some,  and 
are  surprised  at  your  silence.  Mme.  de  Stael  among  others, 
of  whose  activity  and  facility  in  putting  pen  to  paper  you  are 
aware,  complains  bitterly  of  you.  She  desires  me  to  tell 
you  (among  other  things),  that  if  the  masters  of  this  world 
did  not  prevent  it  she  would  go  to  London  to  reproach  you 
your  ingratitude.  But  during  the  coming  winter  she  will 
go  to  Italy,  taking  with  her  a  German  professor,  who  knows 
a  good  many  people  there,  and  who  will  serve  as  tutor  to  her 
two  sons.  Constant  does  not  accompany  her.  She  is  still 
nmch  affected  by  her  father's  death ;  she  loses  in  him  a 
friend,  a  protector,  and  a  support  of  which  she  feels  the  need. 
Yew  people  believe  in  her  depth  of  feeling,  but  as  to  me  it 
is  apparent,  and  I  have  never  doubted  her  kindness  of  heart. 
We  often  talk  of  you,  my  dear  Lord,  together,  and  regret  the 
hours  we  spent  at  Coppet. 

My  wife  informed  you  at  the   time  of    IMlle.   Victoire's 


544     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

marriage  :  it  was  a  surprise  to  every  one — one  did  not  suppose 
that  she  could  have  been  satisfied  with  a  husband  of  50. 
But  those  wlio  know  her  mind  consider  that  a  man  of  his 
age,  with  birth,  fortune,  and  a  cultivated  mind,  might  suit 
her  very  well.  He  has  just  taken  her  to  Paris,  where  she 
will  pass  the  winter,  and  he  has  promised  to  bring  her  to  us 
in  February.  Otherwise  she  will  live  on  a  fine  estate  5  leagues 
from  Turin.  Her  husband  is  laying  out  an  English  garden 
there  for  her,  and  she  is  quite  taken  up  with  this  occupation. 
For  her  help  and  guidance  I  have  lent  her  Price's  work  ;  but 
as  it  does  not  belong  to  me,  she  has  asked  me  to  procure  her 
a  copy,  so  I  am  addressing  myself  to  you,  my  Lord.  This  is 
the  title  :  "  An  Essay  on  the  Picturesque  as  compared  with 
the  Sublime,  &ca,  by  Udevald  Price,  Esq.,  with  addition, 
London,  New  Bond  Street,  1796."  Be  so  good  as  to  send  it 
to  me  by  the  first  opportunity. 

Talking  of  marriage,  do  tell  me  something  about  Robert- 
son's ;  it  seems  to  us  he  is  in  a  great  hurry  to  take  to  himself 
chains,  considering  his  project  of  travelling  like  the  Sage 
Ulysses  to  learn  the  habits  and  customs  of  the  Continent. 
Please  present  our  compliments  and  congratulations  to  him, 
but  tell  him  he  has  bound  himself  on  his  honour  to  come 
back  here  after  Peace  is  declared,  on  the  shores  of  the  lake 
of  Geneva.  We  have  still  many  things  to  show  you  in  our 
beautiful  country,  and  since  you  give  us  reason  to  hope,  I 
trust,  my  Lord,  that  j^ou  will  bring  him  with  you. 

Lady  Beverley  kindly  gave  me  news  of  Lord  Lome ;  tell 
him  please  that  he  is  very  much  in  my  thoughts.  Perhaps 
at  this  time  you  may  be  in  Scotland,  in  wliich  case  I 
will  pray  you  to  present  my  homage  to  the  inhabitants  of 
Inveraray.  If  you  should  have  a  view  of  it  I  beg  of  you  to 
send  it  to  my  wife  ;  I  have  spoken  so  much  to  her  about 
the  place  that  she  is  anxious  to  have  a  drawing  of  it.  I 
have  seen  an  engraving  of  it,  I  think,  in  Pennant's  Tour, 
but  I  suppose  my  Lord  Duke  will  have  had  it  engraved  and 
Avill  have  some  to  dispose  of  ?  I  have  not  stayed  at  my 
little  farm  at  Yenex  this  year.  Mme.  de  Saussure  cannot  go 
far  away  from  her  doctor  :  without  being  actually  ill,  she 
requires  care.  She  is  at  present  at  Plainpalais  in  a  garden 
where  she  has  gone  to  take  the  batlis  and  to  get  change  of 
air  :  she  has  taken  English  books  there  and  her  dictionary, 
so  you  may  write  to  her  in  that  language  and  be  certain  of 
being  understood. 

Besides  this,  there  is  nothing  new  to  tell  you.    Lord  Beverley 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         545 

and  his  son  are  arranging  to  pass  the  winter  with  us.  Two  or 
three  other  young  Englishmen  are  also  under  surveillance  here. 
Since  the  last  week  we  have  the  Duchess  of  Courlande,  two  of 
her  daughters,  and  a  very  numerous  suite,  and  with  her  are 
the  Duchess  of  Belmonte  and  her  three  sons.  Balls  and  parties 
are  being  given  for  them,  after  which  all  these  will  leave  and 
pass  on  to  Italy.  The  Russians  have  left  us  ;  on  the  departure 
of  the  Legation  from  Paris  they  went  on  to  Switzerland. 
Wo  are  situated  here  as  in  a  magic  lantern  :  people  appear 
to  us  for  an  instant  and  disappear  again.  But  they  reappear 
sometimes,  and  wo  hope,  my  dear  Lord,  that  you  will  have 
the  opportunity  and  the  wish  to  do  so. 

I  remain,  my  Lord,  with  all  the  sentiments  that  I  have 
already  professed. 

Your  very  humble  and  very  obedient  servant, 

DE   SaUSSURE    DE    MONGS. 

Note. — Benjamin  Constant  (1767-1830),  orator  and 
writer ;  a  lover  of  Madame  Recamier ;  attacked  Bona- 
parte, 1803,  in  the  Senate,  afterwards  reconciled  to  him  ; 
became  a  mystic  and  devil -worshipper.  His  thwarted 
ambition  to  become  a  member  of  the  Academy  hastened 
his  death. 


M.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell, 

Geneve,  28  Mai,  1805. 

J'ai  attendu,  My  Lord,  asses  longtemps  une 
lettre  de  votre  part  pour  que  je  sois  en  droit  de 
vous  temoigner  quelque  inquietude  de  ne  point 
en  recevoir.  Enfin  il  y  a  15  jours  je  re^us  avis 
de  Mes.  J.  G.  Abcgg  d'Emdcn  qu'ils  venoient 
d'expcdier  une  Caissette  a  mon  adresse.  Je 
supposai  tout  de  suite  qu'elle  venoit  de  votre 
part,  et  qu'elle  eontenoit  les  livres  que  je  vous 
avois  demande  pour  Mad.  Victoire.  La  eais- 
sette  est  arrivee  a  bon  port,  je  vous  en  aceuse  la 
reception  ;  mais  sou  fires.  My  Lord,  que  je  me 
plaigne  de  votre  silence.  II  est  sans  doute  fort 
beau    de    se    rapeller    au    souvenir    d'une    belle 


546     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Dame  en  lui  offrant  de  beaux  livres  ;  mais  il 
faut  quelque  chose  de  plus  a  votre  vieux  ami. 
Je  ne  suis  point  tellement  rassure  sur  votre 
sante  pour  ne  pas  desirer  d'etre  informe  de  tout 
ce  qui  la  concerne.  Apres  cela  j'aimerois  a 
savoir  si  vous  aves  pu  vous  rendre  a  Londres 
pour  les  Seances  du  Parlement,  si  My  Lord  Lome 
vous  y  a  precede  ;  si  vous  aves  laisse  My  Lord 
Due  en  bone  sante  a  Inverary,  si  Lady  Augusta, 
si  la  belle  Lady  Charlotte  y  sont  aussi. 

Je  voudrois  apprendre  de  vous  cofnent  M"" 
Robertson  se  trouve  dans  le  Saint  etat  du 
Mariage  ;  s'il  a  abandone  ses  projets  de  voiage 
pour  se  perfectioner  dans  I'art  qu'il  exeryoit — oii 
si,  digne  ills  de  son  Pere,  il  se  borne  a  cultiver 
ses  domaines  et  a  procrcer  des  Enfans.  Je 
voudrois  enfm  vous  demander,  si  nous  n'avons 
aucun  espoir  de  terminer  cette  lutte  funeste  qui 
tient  deux  grandes  nations  en  cohue,  et  toutes 
les  autres  petites  en  suspens  et  en  souffrance. 
Vous  voies.  My  Lord,  what  a  number  of  topicks 
of  private  &  public  interest  j'ai  a  traiter  avec 
vous,  et  combien  votre  silence  m'est  penible. 

A  present  je  veux  vous  dire  un  mot  de  vos 
amis  de  Geneve.  Madame  de  Stael  poursuit 
avec  succes  son  voiage  d'ltalie.  Elle  reviendra 
passer  I'automne  a  Copet.  Mad.  Recamier  lui 
avoit  annonce  sa  visite  pour  ce  moment  la,  mais 
on  n'en  parle  plus  dans  ce  moment.  Victoire, 
la  belle  Victoire,  est  actuellement  en  proces  avec 
son  marri.  Elle  plaide  en  separation  M'"  de  la 
Turbie,  pour  cause  de  sevices,  mauvais  traite- 
mens  &ca.  On  dit  que  ce  monstre  I'a  frappee, 
menacee,  epouvantee  au  point  de  I'engager  a 
fuir  de  sa  maison  et  a  chercher  un  refuge  ches 
Mad*^  de  Cavour.  Tout  le  monde  a  Turin  a  pris 
parti   pour   elle ;    la   Cour,   la   ville,  chacun   s'y 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         547 

interesse  :  vous  penses  bien.  My  Lord,  combien 
nous  avons  ete  touche  de  son  sort.  On  espere 
que  les  Tribuneaux  lui  rendront  bone  justice,  et 
que  dans  3  mois  elle  sera  rendue  a  sa  famille  et 
a  ses  amis.  Je  lui  presenterai  a  son  arrivee  le 
Cadeau  que  vous  lui  destines.  Quand  je  vous 
demandai  ces  livres  pour  elle,  elle  etoit  alors 
dans  les  Terres  de  son  Marri,  qui  plantoit,  qui 
arrangeoit  un  jardin  Anglois,  et  qui  prctendoit 
n'etre  oceupc  d'aucun  autre  soin  que  celui 
d'embellir  sa  demeure.  Le  jeune  Sellon  est 
alle  joindre  sa  soeur  des  le  moment  que  I'affaire 
a  eclate,  et  il  est  encore  a  Turin.  Sa  soeur 
Adele,  marriee  depuis  pcu  a  M""  de  Cavour, 
vient  de  partir  aussi  pour  cette  ville.  Victoire 
se  trouvera  de  cette  manicre  au  milieu  des  siens 
dans  le  moment  ou  elle  a  besoin  de  tons  les 
secours  et  de  toutes  les  consolations  de  I'amitie. 
Son  Pere  a  ete  extremement  affecte  de  son 
malheur ;  nous  le  trouvons  affairrc,  vieilli.  II 
nc  lui  reste  dans  ce  moment  que  sa  fille  cadette 
]^|iie  Henriette,  qui  le  soutient  par  son  courage 
et  par  sa  raison.  Cette  jeune  persone  que  son 
avis  distingue  interesse  tout  le  monde  par  sa 
conduite. 

Pour  nous,  My  Lord,  nous  avons  ete  les 
premieres  victimes  de  la  guerre.  Les  vaisseaux 
qui  avoient  charge  pour  notre  compte  a  Surinam 
les  denrees  que  nous  avions  en  magasin  ont  ete 
captures.  C'est  pour  la  seconde  fois  que  nous 
eprouvons  cette  pertc.  En  179i  nous  plaidames 
en  reclamation  en  notre  qualite  de  Suisses  et 
nous  obtinmes  a  redress  :  actuellement  nous 
n'avons  pas  nieme  cette  ressourcc. 

Cette  circonstance,  jointe  a  la  faible  sante  de 
ma  feme  qui  la  retient  a  Geneve,  m'est  engage 
a  vendre  ma  campagne  ;    de   cette  maniere  me 


548     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

voicy  tout  a  fait  Citadon.  Nous  ferons  quelques 
courses  et  des  visites  a  nos  amis  ;  voila  a  quoi 
se  bornera  notrc  Ete. 

Nous  avons  eu  un  temps  deplorable,  uii  hyver 
sans  fin ;  nous  comptons  six  mois  de  pluie  ou  de 
neiges  :  ce]a  est  sans  exemple  dans  notre  pays. 
Nous  n 'avons  pas  encore  cesse  de  faire  du  feu 
dans  nos  appartemens  !  Aves  vous  eu  aussi  une 
intemperie  ?  Cela  ne  convient  point  a  de 
faibles  santes :  rassures  moi,  my  Lord,  sur  la 
votre,  et  comptes  sur  I'interet  que  vous  nous 
aves  inspire.  Ma  feme  pretend  que  vous  lui 
deves  une  reponse ;  songes  done  a  vous  aquitter 
envers  le  marri  et  envers  la  feine,  car  tous  les 
deux  ont  des  claim  sur  vous. 

P.S. — Oseroi  je  vous  prier  de  presenter  mes 
respects  a  My  Lady  Beverley.  Je  vois  souvent 
My  Lord  et  M"  Percy ;  tous  les  deux  se  portent 
bien,  et  nous  font  esperer  une  visite  de  My  Lady 
et  de  ses  deux  filles. 

[Translation.] 

Geneva,  2Sth  May,  1805. 

I  have  waited  long  enough  for  a  letter  from  you,  my 
Lord,  to  Justify  me  in  feeling  a  certain  amount  of  anxiety 
at  not  receiving  any.  Well,  a  fortnight  ago,  I  received  a 
notice  from  Messrs.  J.  G.  Abegg  of  Emden,  saying  they 
had  just  sent  a  small  case  to  my  address.  I  supposed  at 
once  that  it  came  from  you,  and  contained  the  books  I  had 
asked  you  about  for  Mme.  Victoire.  The  case  arrived  quite 
safely,  and  I  hereby  acknowledge  its  receipt  ;  but  allow  me, 
my  Lord,  to  complain  of  your  silence.  No  doubt  it  is  a 
fine  thing  to  recall  one's  self  to  the  memory  of  a  beautiful 
lady  by  offering  her  handsome  books,  but  that  does  not 
satisfy  an  old  friend.  I  am  not  reassured  enough  about 
your  health  as  not  to  wish  to  know  all  you  can  tell  me  con- 
cerning it.  After  that  I  should  like  to  know  whether  you 
were  able  to  be  in  London  for  the  Parliamentary  Session, 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         549 

whether  Lord  Lome  preceded  you  there,  whether  you  left 
my  Lord  Duke  in  good  lioalth  at  Inveraray,  whether  Lady 
Augusita  and  the  beautiful  Lady  Charlotte  are  there  also. 

I  would  like  to  hear  from  you  how  Mr.  Robertson  prospers 
in  the  holy  state  of  matrimony  ;  whether  he  has  abandoned 
his  idea  of  travelling  for  the  purj)ose  of  perfecting  himself 
in  his  art — or  wiiether,  worthy  son  of  his  father,  he  will 
content  liimself  with  cultivating  his  lands  and  rearing  children. 
Lastly,  I  should  like  to  ask  you  wiiether  there  is  no  chance 
of  terminating  this  deadly  contest,  which  keeps  two  great 
nations  in  a  state  of  turmoil,  and  all  the  other  little  ones  in  a 
state  of  suspense  and  suffering.  You  see,  my  Lord,  "  what  a 
number  of  topicks  of  private  &  public  interest  "  I  have  to 
discuss  with  you,  and  how  painful  your  silence  is  therefore 
to  me. 

Now  I  must  say  a  few  words  about  your  friends  at  Geneva. 
Mme.  de  Staiil  pursues  her  travels  in  Italy  with  success.  She 
will  return  for  the  autumn  to  Coppet.  Mme.  Recamier  had 
announced  her  intention  of  visiting  her  at  that  season,  but 
the  matter  seems  to  have  dropped  at  present.  Victoire, 
beautiful  Victoire,  has  actually  gone  to  law  with  her  husband. 
She  pleads  for  a  separation  from  M'  de  la  Turbie,  on  the 
score  of  his  vices,  ill-treatment,  etc.  It  is  said  that  the 
nionster  has  struck  her,  threatened,  and  terrified  her  to  such 
a  degree  as  to  cause  her  to  fiy  from  his  house  and  seek  refuge 
with  Mme.  de  Cavour.  Everybody  in  Turin  has  sided  with 
her ;  the  Court,  the  town,  every  one  is  taking  an  interest  in 
the  case  :  you  can  well  imagine,  my  Lord,  how  much  we 
are  touched  by  her  fate.  It  is  hoped  that  the  Tribunals  will 
deal  justly  with  her,  and  that  in  three  months  she  will  be  back 
among  her  family  and  friends.  I  shall  hand  over  your  present 
to  her  on  her  arrival.  When  I  asked  you  for  these  books 
for  her,  she  was  on  her  husband's  property  ;  he  was  j)lanting 
and  designing  an  English  garden  for  her,  pretending  to  have 
no  other  thought  than  of  beautifying  her  home.  Young 
8ellon  went  to  rejoin  his  sister  as  soon  as  the  crisis  came, 
and  he  is  still  at  Turin.  Her  sister  Adele,  married  recently 
to  M'  de  Cavour,  has  also  left  for  that  town  ;  so  that  in 
this  manner  Victoire  will  find  herself  among  her  friends  at 
the  time  when  she  needs  help  and  consolation.  Her  father  is 
much  alfectcd  by  her  trouble  ;  we  hnd  him  preoccupied  and 
aged.  Only  his  younger  daughter.  Mile.  Henriette,  is  left 
him  now,  who  sustains  him  with  her  courage  and  good  sense. 
Tliis  young  person  interests  every  one  by  her  conduct. 


550     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

As  for  us,  my  Lord,  we  were  the  first  victims  of  the  war. 
The  vessels  chartered  by  us  for  Surinam,  the  goods  which 
we  had  in  store,  have  been  captured.  It  is  the  second  time 
we  have  suffered  this  loss.  In  1794  we  appealed  for  damages 
on  the  ground  that  we  were  Swiss,  and  we  obtained  redress  : 
but  now  we  have  not  that  resource. 

This  circumstance,  added  to  the  feeble  health  of  my  wife, 
which  keeps  her  at  Geneva,  decided  me  to  sell  my  country 
place,  and  I  am  now  entirely  a  town-bird.  We  shall  pay  a 
few  visits  to  friends,  and  that  is  all  our  summer  will  consist  of. 

We  have  had  deplorable  weather,  an  endless  winter,  six 
months  of  rain  or  snow  :  this  is  without  precedent  in  our 
country.  We  still  have  fires  in  our  apartments !  Have 
you  also  suffered  from  bad  weather  ?  It  does  not  suit  feeble 
healths :  reassure  me,  my  Lord,  about  yours,  and  rest  assured 
of  the  interest  you  have  mspired  in  me.  My  wife  will  have 
it  that  you  owe  her  an  answer ;  therefore  do  not  fail  to  acquit 
yourself  to  both  husband  and  wife,  for  both  have  a  claim  on 
you  ! 

P.S. — Dare  I  ask  you  to  present  my  respects  to  Lady 
Beverley  ?  I  often  see  my  Lord  and  Mrs.  Percy ;  both  are 
well,  and  we  hope  for  a  visit  from  My  Lady  and  her  two 
daughters. 


M.  et  Mme.  de  Saussure  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

J'ai  ete  si  touchee  de  votre  lettre,  Milord,  elle 
m'a  fait  tant  de  plaisir  que  mon  intention  etoit 
d'y  repondre  tres  promptement.  Mais  I'ayant 
re^ue  la  veille  de  mon  depart  pour  Neufchatel, 
il  ne  me  restoit  aucun  moment  a  vous  doner,  et 
arrivee  aupres  de  mes  Amis  on  ne  m'a  pas 
laissee  plus  de  loisir.  II  a  done  falu  revenir  a 
Geneve,  et  faire  mille  autre  choses  encore  avant 
de  vous  dire,  Milord,  que  bien  loin  de  vous 
oublier,  nous  conservons,  M""  de  Saussure  et  Moi, 
le  plus  tendre  souvenir  de  vous.  Votre  Sante 
nous  interesse  vivement,  et  nous  formons  deja 
mille  projets  agreables  pour  votre  retour.  Vous 
nous  trouveres  a  Geneve,  et  loges  de  maniere, 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         551 

j'espere,  a  pouvoir   vivre  encore  sous  le  meme 
toit  que  vous. 

M""  Robertson  est  bien  cloigne  de  penser  encore 
a  nous,  et  de  desirer  de  revoir  ce  Pays  et  ses 
conoissances.  Le  voila  elevc  dans  toutes  les 
dignites,  et  bientot  un  des  plus  riches  particuliers 
de  I'Ecosse.  Avec  tant  davcntages  on  pouroit 
oublier  jusqu'a  I'auteur  de  Delphine  *  ;  du  reste 
Mad.  de  St.  n'est  pas  restee  en  arriere,  et  les 
allees  du  pare  de  Copet  ont  vu  deslors  d'autres 
touchans  adieux.  Vous  saves  peut  etre  deja, 
Milord,  qu'elle  a  passe  I'hiver  a  Geneve,  que 
sa  Cour  etoit  brillante,  et  qu'elle  a  joue  la 
tragedie  d'une  maniere  distinguee.  Elle  nous 
a  fait  oublier  dans  le  role  de  Phedre  qu'elle  n'a 
n'y  beaute,  ni  noblesse ;  un  organe  enchanteur, 
une  sensibilite  vraie,  et  beaucoup  de  nature  ont 
charmes  tous  les  Spectateurs.  Deux  elegans 
Parisien  et  le  fils  de  notre  Prefet  ont  etc  les 
principeaux  acteurs.  Ce  dernier  plein  d'esprit 
et  de  conoissance,  quoique  sans  talent  pour  le 
theatre,  et  meme  sans  figure,  a  fait  sur  elle  une 
grande  impression. 

Le  printems  a  disperse  toute  cette  Socicte. 
M*"  de  Barante  est  parti  pour  Paris ;  la  Barone 
p""  Copet,  d'ou  appres  quelques  jours  de  rcceuil le- 
nient elle  est  revenue  ici  passer  24  heures 
avant  de  prendre  la  route  de  Lions  d'Auxcre, 
pce  vous  saves  qu'il  ne  lui  est  pas  permis  f 
d'aller  a  Paris  ;  il  faut  rester  a  40  lieux  de  la 
Capitalle  ou  se  reunissent  tous  ses  gouts  et 
toutes  ses  affections.  Cet  exil,  qui  me  semble 
bien  injuste,  gate  le  sort  de  Mad.  de  St.,  et  cette 
feme  celebre,  douee  de  tous  les  talens,  est  beau- 
coup  moins  heureuse  qu'une  autre.     Appres  un 

*  Madame  de  Steiel. 
f  By  Bonaparte. 


552     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

tel   exemple,    qui   ne   seroit   pas   console   de   la 
Mediocrite  ? 

Parlous  appresent  de  Mad.  de  la  Turbie, 
c'est  ne  point  quitter,  Milord,  le  cercle  de  vos 
conoissances  et  celui  de  vos  amis.  Sa  situation 
est  toujours  la  meme ;  elle  vit  a  Turin  ches  sa 
Soeur  Adelle,  qui  a  epouse  il  y  a  une  afiee  un 
jeune  M""  de  Cavour  que  vous  aures  pent  etre 
su  dans  votre  Sejour  a  Geneve.  Le  Mariage  fait 
sous  de  plus  heureux  auspices  consolle  Mad.  de 
la  Turbie  dans  ses  malheurs,  obligee  de  resider 
a  Turin  a  cause  de  son  Proces  qui  n'est  point 
termine ;  il  doit  lui  etre  fort  douce  de  vivre  avec 
une  Soeur  et  au  milieu  d'une  seconde  famille. 
M""  de  la  Turbie,  qu'il  ne  faudroit  nomer  qu'un 
monstre,  ajoute  a  tous  les  Manx  qu'il  a  deja  fait 
celui  d'en  appeller  a  tous  les  incidens,  et  de 
faire  par  consequent  trainer  en  longueur  une 
separation  que  les  loix  ne  peuvent  pas  refuser ; 
mais  le  changement  de  Religion  de  Mad.  de  la 
T.  rend  le  divorce  impossible.  Auries  vous 
pense.  Milord,  que  le  sort  de  cette  aimable  et 
charmante  Victoire  devint  en  si  peu  de  temps 
aussi  infortune  ?  et  ne  partages  vous  pas  tout 
le  chagrin  que  cela  nous  cause  ?  Elle  a  charge 
M'"  de  Saussure  de  lui  garder  votre  livre,  et  de 
vous  en  faire  parvenir  ses  remerciements.  M"® 
Henriette,  la  cadette  des  3  Soeurs,  n'est  pas 
mariee  ;  elle  vit  toujours  ici  avec  son  Pere,  fort 
change  et  fort  affaibli.  Le  Frere  est  a  Paris 
depuis  quelques  Mois.  M"^  Amelie  Fabry  est 
aussi  telle  que  vous  I'aves  laissee,  a  I'exception 
de  sa  sante,  qui  devient  toujours  plus  delicate. 
Mad.  Rellict  Habert  n'a  point  joue  la  Comedie 
avec  Mad.  de  Stael ;  sa  sante  et  son  Mary  s'y 
sont  opposes. 

Voila,  Milord,  un  mot  sur  les  persones  dont 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         553 

vous  dcves  vous  souvenir  Ic  micux — ct  qui 
vous  rcvcront  ici  avec  le  plus  grand  plaisir  si 
vous  voulcs  avcc  le  temps  aelicter  une  petite 
Campagne  dans  les  environs  de  Geneve ;  nous 
nous  amuserons  d'avanee  a  la  choisir :  je  crains 
seulement  que  vous  ne  trouvies  rien  ici  d'asses 
champetre ;  ditcs  moi  a  peu  prcs  qu'il  seroit 
votre  gout.  Epenen  apparticnt  apprcsent  a 
Mad.  Donat,  la  plus  belle  Feme  de  ce  Pays, 
et  nous  passons  aetuellement  toute  I'anee  a 
la  ville.  II  n'y  a  plus  que  des  projets  pour 
varier  mon  existence — eelui  de  I'ltalie  me  tient 
toujours  au  Coeur.  Vencs,  Milord,  nous  yrons 
avec  vous  ?  Voila  Saussure  qui  demande  la 
plume,  et  qui  m'enleve  le  plaisir  de  vous  parler 
encore  de  votre  Famille ;  je  vous  remercie  de 
tout  ce  que  vous  aves  bien  voulu  m'en  dire. 
Adieu,  Milord ;  songes  que  je  serai  jalouse  si 
vous  ecrives  plus  a  SP  de  Saussure  qu'a  Moi. 

[Change  of  handwriting.] 

Mad.  de  Saussure  a  cpuisc  tons  les  sujets  de 
Societe  qui  peuvent  vous  interesser  yei,  my 
dear  Lord,  et  emploie  presque  tout  mon  papier  ; 
mais  il  m'en  reste  asses  pour  vous  entretenir  de 
ce  qui  me  touch e  le  plus  :  vous  penses  bien  que 
je  veux  parler  d'Inverary  et  de  tons  ses  habitans. 
Prcsentes  au  patriarche  de  ce  Chateau,  a  votre 
respectable  Pere,  mes  voeux  et  mon  homage. 
Ne  m'oublics  pas  aupres  de  vos  interessantes 
Soeurs.  Dites  au  Marquis  de  Lome  que  son 
vieux  ami  lui  prepare  depuis  bien  des  annees  un 
compliment  de  felicitation  pour  un  evenement 
qu'il  renvoie  toujours,  ct  qu'il  renvoie  trop  au 
gre  de  tons  ccux  qui  raiment.  Et  vous.  My  Lord, 
maintenes  vous  dans  la  disposition  favorable  que 
vous  aves  pour  nous,  et  des  que  les  circonstances 

VOL.  n.  15 


554     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

vous  le  permettront,  revenes  sur  les  bords  de 
notre  beau  lac,  et  raproches  vous  d'amis  qui 
vous  sont  bien  devoues. 

Remember  me  kindly  to  M""  Robertson  ;  nous 
nous  somes  rejoui  de  son  mariage,  et  de  la 
fortune  qu'il  lui  promet.  Je  suis,  My  Lord,  avec 
un  entier  devouement,  V.  t.  h.  s. 

DE  Saussure  de  Mongs. 

Geneve,   18  Avril,   1806. 

P.S. — Je  joins  yci  une  lettre  que  Mad®  de 
Stael  m'a  envoiee  pour  vous. 


[Translation.] 

I  was  so  touched  by  your  letter,  my  Lord,  and  it  gave 
me  so  much  pleasure  that  I  intended  to  reply  to  it  very 
promptly.  But  having  received  it  the  eve  of  my  departure 
for  Neufchatel,  I  could  not  spare  a  moment  for  you,  and 
once  with  my  friends  they  gave  me  no  leisure.  I  have  had 
then  to  return  to  Geneva  and  to  do  a  thousand  things  before 
being  able  to  assure  you  again,  my  dear  Lord,  that  M.  de 
Saussure  and  I  preserve  the  tenderest  recollections  of  you. 
We  are  much  concerned  for  your  health,  and  we  have  already 
formed  a  thousand  pleasant  plans  for  your  return.  You 
will  find  us  at  Geneva,  and  in  such  fashion  that  I  hope  we 
shall  be  able  to  live  under  the  same  roof  as  you. 

Mr.  Robertson  seems  to  have  forgotten  all  about  us  and 
his  desire  to  see  tliis  country  and  his  friends  again.  Now 
he  is  high  up  in  the  world,  and  one  of  the  richest  private 
persons  in  Scotland.  With  such  advantages  one  might 
forget  even  the  author  of  "  Delphine  "  ;  for  that  matter,  Mme. 
de  Stael  is  hardly  behindhand,  for  the  walks  in  the  park  of 
Coppet  have  been  the  scene  of  other  touching  adieux,  since. 
You  know  already,  my  Lord,  that  she  has  spent  the  winter 
at  Geneva,  that  her  court  has  been  brilliant,  and  that 
she  has  distinguished  herself  as  a  tragedian.  In  the  role 
of  Phaedra  she  has  made  us  forget  that  she  has  neither 
beauty  nor  nobility  :  an  enchanting  voice,  real  sensibility, 
and  much  genuine  nature  charmed  all  the  spectators.     Two 


MONSIEUR    DE    SAUSSURE         555 

Parisian  elegants  and  the  son  of  our  Prefect  were  the  prin- 
cipal actors.  The  last-named,  full  of  wit  and  knowledge, 
although  without  talent  or  appearance  for  the  theatre,  has 
made  a  deep  impression  on  her. 

Spring  has  broken  up  our  society.  M.  de  Barante  has 
left  for  Paris  ;  the  Baroness  to  Coppet,  whence  after  some 
days  of  retirement  she  returned  to  spend  24  hours  here 
before  taking  the  road  from  Lyons  to  Auxerre,  because, 
you  know,  she  is  not  allowed  to  go  to  Paris  ;  she  must 
remain  40  leagues  from  the  capital  which  comprises  all  her 
inchnations  and  aflfections.  This  exile,  which  seems  to  me 
most  unjust,  embitters  the  lot  of  Mme.  de  vStael,  and  this 
famous  woman,  endowed  with  all  the  talents,  is  much  less 
happy  than  others.  With  such  an  example,  who  would 
not  be  content  with  mediocrity  ? 

We  vnW  speak  at  present  of  Mme.  de  la  Turbie  ;  that  will 
be  keeping  inside  the  circle,  my  Lord,  of  your  friends  and 
acquaintances.  Her  situation  remains  the  same  ;  she  lives 
at  Turin  with  her  sister  Adelle,  who  a  year  ago  married  a 
young  M.  de  Cavour,  whom  you  perhaps  knew  during  your 
stay  at  Geneva.  This  marriage  made  under  the  happiest 
auspices  consoles  Mme.  de  la  Turbie  in  her  misfortunes, 
obliged  to  remain  at  Turin  on  account  of  her  lawsuit  which 
is  not  ended  ;  it  must  be  nice  for  her  to  live  with  a  sister 
and  in  the  midst  of  a  second  family.  M.  de  la  Turbie,  whom 
one  can  only  call  a  monster,  in  addition  to  the  harm  he  has 
already  done,  raises  all  possible  difficulties,  and  seeks  to 
prolong  the  proceedings  for  a  separation  which  the  law  cannot 
refuse.  But  Mme.  de  la  Turbie's  change  of  religion  renders 
a  divorce  impossible.  Would  you  ever  have  dreamt,  my 
Lord,  that  the  lot  of  the  amiable  and  charming  Victoire 
would  become  in  so  short  a  time  so  hapless  ?  and  do  you 
not  share  all  the  sorrow  this  causes  her  ?  She  has  told 
M.  de  Saussure  to  keep  your  book  for  her,  and  to  thank 
you  for  it.  Mile.  Henriette,  the  youngest  of  the  three  sisters, 
is  not  married.  She  remains  here  with  her  father,  who  is 
very  changed  and  much  enfeebled.  The  brother  has  been 
some  months  at  Paris.  Mile.  Amclie  Fabry  remains  much 
the  same  as  when  you  left  her,  except  as  regards  her  health, 
which  becomes  every  day  more  delicate.  Mme.  Rellict 
Habert  has  not  acted  in  the  comedy  \\'\i\\  Mme.  de  Stael  ; 
her  health  and  her  husband  were  against  it. 

There,  my  Lord,  you  have  a  word  or  two  about  the  people 
you  ought  to  remember  best,  and  who  will  see  you  return 


556     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

here  Avith  the  greatest  pleasure  if  you  care  to  buy  a  httle 
country  place  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Geneva  ;  it  will  amuse 
us  in  the  meantime  to  choose  it  for  you  :  I  fear  only  that 
you  may  not  find  anything  here  sufficiently  rural ;  toll  me 
as  nearly  as  possible  what  you  would  fancy.  Epenen  belongs 
at  present  to  Mme.  Donat,  the  most  beautiful  woman  in 
the  country,  and  we  spend  the  whole  year  in  town.  There 
are  nothing  but  projects  for  varying  my  existence — that  of 
Italy  is  dearest  to  me.  Come,  my  Lord,  we  will  go  with 
you  ?  But  here  is  Saussure  who  demands  my  pen,  and 
deprives  me  of  the  pleasure  of  speaking  of  your  family.  I 
thank  you  for  all  that  you  have  told  me  about  them.  Fare- 
well, my  Lord  :  remember  that  I  shall  be  jealous  if  you 
write  more  to  M.  de  Saussure  than  to  me. 

[Change  of  handwriting.'] 

Mme.  de  Saussure  has  exhausted  all  the  society  topics 
which  could  interest  you  here,  my  Lord,  and  has  used  nearly 
all  my  paper,  but  enough  remains  for  me  to  talk  to  you 
about  that  which  interests  me  the  most :  you  will  guess  that 
I  mean  Inveraray  and  all  its  inhabitants.  Offer  to  the 
patriarch  of  that  castle,  your  respected  father,  my  com- 
pliments and  my  homage.  Do  not  forget  to  offer  my  re- 
spects to  your  interesting  sisters.  Tell  the  Marquis  of  Lome 
that  his  old  friend  has  long  prepared  for  him  a  special 
act  of  congratulation  for  an  event  which  he  always  puts 
oS,  and  puts  off  too  long  in  the  opinion  of  those  who  love  him. 
And  you,  my  Lord,  persevere  in  the  kindly  feeling  you  have 
for  us,  and  as  soon  as  circumstances  permit,  return  to  the 
shores  of  our  beautiful  lake,  and  be  amongst  the  friends  who 
are  so  devoted  to  you. 

Remember  me  kindly  to  Mr.  Robertson.  We  rejoiced  to 
hear  of  his  marriage  and  the  fortune  that  it  promises.  I 
am,  my  Lord, 

Yours,  etc., 

DE  Saussure  de  Mongs. 

Geneva,  18  April,  1806. 

P.S. — I  enclose  a  letter  which  Mme.  de  Stael  has  sent  me 
for  you. 


p.  55(!] 


.MjiK.    i>i:  sTAi:i, 


LETTERS    OF    MADAME    DE    STAEL 

1803 

Madame  de  Stael  was  Anne  Louise  Germaine 
Necker,  the  only  daughter  of  the  Minister  of 
Finance  under  Louis  XVI.  He  was  a  Swiss 
banker  with  a  charming  property  at  Coppet  on 
the  Lake  of  Geneva,  a  place  which  became  the 
home  of  his  daughter  during  the  long  years 
when  she  deplored  her  hard  fate  in  being 
banished  from  Paris.  But  only  Parisians  can 
have  thought  she  was  unfortunate  in  having 
to  leave  France,  for  a  pleasanter  existence  than 
that  led  by  her  at  Coppet  it  is  difficult  to  imagine. 
At  Geneva  and  at  Coppet  there  was  often  the 
best  Parisian  society,  and  much  which  came 
from  England,  from  Sweden,  from  Germany — 
indeed  much  of  every  kind  disliking  the  domin- 
ance of  the  Revolution,  and  afterwards  that  of 
Bonaparte.  But  the  child  is  mother  to  the 
woman,  and  her  youth  had  known  much  of 
France.  She  had  married  the  Swedish  Am- 
bassador accredited  to  the  French  Government, 
a  nian  much  older  than  herself.  Baron  de  Stael- 
Holstein.  She  showed  great  courage  and  spirit 
at  the  commencement  of  the  Revolution,  writing 
in  favour  of  the  Queen  Marie  Antoinette,  and 
making  herself  so  well  known  that  it  was  wonder- 
ful she  was  not  arrested  before  she  effected  her 
escape  in  1792.     It  was  after  this  that  Coppet 

557 


558     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

became  the  meeting-place  of  so  many  of  the 
Emigres,  as  the  partisans  of  the  ancien  regime 
banished  from  French  soil  were  called. 

My  grandfather,  Lord  John  Campbell,  a 
Member  of  Parliament  and  ex-officer  of  the 
Guards,  was  one  of  the  British  tourists  who 
had  a  narrow  escape  from  the  treachery  of 
Napoleon,  who,  in  a  time  of  peace  between  the 
British  and  French  Governments,  suddenly 
ordered  the  arrest  of  all  well-known  Englishmen 
travelling  in  France.  Fortunately  he  was  near 
the  frontier,  and  received  friendly  warning. 
This  enabled  him  to  reach  the  house  of  an  old 
lady  who  had  been  a  governess  in  his  family. 
She  was  quite  astute  enough  to  outwit  the 
police  agents,  and  getting  Lord  John  to  put  on 
one  of  her  dresses,  she  hurried  him  into  a  wood, 
concealing  him  so  well  that  at  night  she  was 
able  to  furnish  him  with  a  guide,  who  brought 
him  safely  over  the  boundary-line.  He  was 
constantly  the  guest  of  Madame  de  Stael,  and 
her  frequent  correspondent  when  he  was  in 
England.  Her  hero  in  her  novel  '*  Corinne " 
was  recognised  by  his  friends  as  a  "  variation " 
of  Lord  John. 

It  is  amusing,  in  Madame  de  Stael's  parody 
rather  than  description  of  the  character  of 
Lord  John  Campbell  in  Lord  Nelville,  to  trace 
the  likenesses  and  the  exaggeration.  Though  she 
represents  him  as  inclined  to  be  consumptive,  and 
therefore  advised  by  the  doctors  to  go  South,  1 
she  says  that  he  took  with  him  a  Scottish 
horse,  which,  accustomed  to  gallop  in  scaling 
the  mountains,  was  able  to  do  this  also  in 
the  Tyrol,  its  master  disdaining  the  high-roads 
to  pass  along  the  steepest  paths.  The  peasants 
looked    on    with    affright,    then    clapped    their 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  559 

liands  with  admiration  at  the  address  of  the 
horse  and  rider,  and  marvelled  at  his  Lordship's 
agihty  and  courage. 

I  give  an  illustration  of  this  redoubtable 
rider,  not  on  horseback,  but  as  an  officer  of 
the  Guard  on  the  Parade  at  Whitehall,  with 
the  towers  of  Westminster  Abbey  in  the  back- 
ground. This  is  from  a  drawing  by  Edridge, 
and  represents  him  as  he  appeared  to  the  eyes 
of  Madame  de  Stael  when  as  a  young  man  he 
made  her  acquaintance  in  Switzerland.  She 
makes  her  heroine  in  her  novel  "  Corinne  "  visit 
Scotland,  but  her  descriptions  are  so  general 
that  they  have  no  special  character,  and  it  is 
doubtful  if  she  ever  visited  the  Chateau  of  her 
Lord  Nelville.  He  inspired  Corinne  with  a 
sentiment  of  respect  which  she  had  not  felt 
for  a  long  while.  No  one  spirit,  however  dis- 
tinguished it  might  be,  could  astonish  her. 
But  his  loftiness  and  dignity  of  character  made 
a  great  impression  on  her.  Lord  Nelville  com- 
bined with  these  qualities  a  nobility  of  expression, 
an  elegance  in  the  most  minute  actions  of  life, 
which  contrasted  strongly  with  the  carelessness 
and  familiarity  of  the  manners  of  the  greater  part 
of  the  great  lords  in  Paris. 

"  Corinne  "  was  a  novel  famous  in  its  day, 
wherein  Madame  de  Stael  gave  an  imaginary 
likeness  of  herself  as  a  glorious  literary  Being, 
acclaimed  as  a  marvel,  and  receiving  the  homage 
of  the  Romans  and  of  the  inhabitants  of  other 
cities,  on  account  of  the  fame  which  followed 
her  as  a  wonderful  writer.  She  WTites  much  of 
another  character,  almost  as  ideal  as  her  heroine, 
describing  a  young  Scottish  Noble,  around  whom 
she  throws  a  bright  haze  of  romance  lit  with 
the   sympathy  of  her  own  kindred  and  loving 


560     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

soul,  as  shown  forth  in  Corinne.  It  is  all  "  in 
excelsis."  She  is  marvellous  because  receptive 
of  all  the  raptures  and  roses  of  human  love  and 
popular  admiration.  He  is  romantic  as  coming 
from  the  Highlands,  a  country  then  supposed 
to  be  filled  with  walking  embodiments  of  the 
tremendous  spectres  of  Ossian,  whom  Napoleon 
loved  and  Madame  de  Stael  very  rightly  judged 
to  be  very  monotonous  personages.  She  could 
never  agree  with  Napoleon — he  was  her  Hate. 
Lord  John  was  her  platonic  Love.  But  she  had 
others,  and  eventually  married  a  young  ofhcer 
named  Rocca,  young  enough  to  have  been  her 
son. 

These  letters  only  reach  to  the  year  1804,  and 
most  of  them  were  written  in  1803.  It  is  curious 
to  remember  that  her  influence  had  been  power- 
ful enough  at  Paris  to  get  Talleyrand  recalled 
from  his  exile  in  America.  The  Baron,  her 
husband,  died  in  1802.  She  used  to  seal  her 
letters  with  a  seal  bearing  his  coronet  with  a 
cipher  of  her  own  initials  beneath.  Napoleon 
disliked  her  because  she  meddled  in  politics, 
and  he  was  not  a  women- suffrage  man.  His 
spies  told  him  that  she  had  given  false  informa- 
tion for  political  ends.  She  was  first  told  she 
must  not  come  within  40  leagues  of  Paris. 
Finally  she  was  commanded  by  the  Emperor 
never  to  move  more  than  two  leagues  away  from 
Coppet.  She  took  advantage  of  his  captivity 
at  Elba  to  go  to  Paris.  As  soon  as  he  landed 
at  Frejus  to  commence  the  Hundred  Days'  reign 
she  fled.  She  reappeared  at  Paris  after  Waterloo. 
She  had  angered  the  Emperor  by  getting  away 
in  1812  to  Russia  and  Stockholm.  In  1804 
her  father  died,  so  that  when  the  last  of  this 
correspondence  was  sent  to  England  she  was  in 


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possession  of  all  the  old  banker's  property,  and 
could  afford  to  exercise  the  lavish  hospitality 
for  which  she  was  famous.  The  men  and  women 
she  saw  at  her  own  house  gave  her  "  characters  " 
to  be  introduced  into  her  works  of  imagination, 
and  one  of  those  she  had  most  opportunity  of 
studying  and  admiring  was  the  "  jeune  Lord 
^cossais  "  of  "  Corinne." 

The  life  of  the  "  Emigres  "  at  Coppet  must 
have  been  one  full  of  interest.  The  post  would 
constantly  bring  more  and  more  alarming  tidings 
of  the  career  of  the  strange  Corsican  soldier  who 
had 

"  Caught  tlie  fair  Republic  by  her  back-blown  hair, 
And  stayed  her  course,  and  freedom  in  a  thousand  lands," 

as  Swinburne  says.  They  would  hear  from  the 
British  guardsman  who  had  so  narrowly  escaped 
"  the  Corsican  Ogre "  how,  just  before  the 
attempt  to  arrest  him,  he  had  been  present  at 
a  Levee  at  the  Tuileries,  and  seen  Napoleon  as 
he  made  the  circle  of  his  guests,  and  had  been 
presented  to  the  great  little  man,  "  of  thin  face, 
prominent  nose,  large  grey  eyes,  and  short 
gaunt  figure."  There  at  Coppet  men  of  all 
professions  came,  literary  men  who  had  taken 
part  in  the  word- war  fare  of  the  troubled  time, 
soldiers  obliged  to  seek  repose  from  fever  or 
wounds,  men  of  science  glad  to  have  a  word  with 
de  Saussure  /1/-9,  and  to  speak  with  him  of  his 
father's  triumphs  over  the  white  peaks  of  Rosa 
and  gleaming  dome  of  Mont  Blanc,  and  listen  to 
him  and  Italian  guests  speculating  on  the  causes 
of  the  eruptions  of  Vesuvius  and  Stromboli  and 
Etna,  and  comparing  notes  on  geology,  then  in 
the  infancy  of  its  science,  and  the  evidences 
given  by  its  lavas  and   granites  and  pumice  of 


5G2     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

the  overthrow  of  an  old  world  by  the  forces 
of  fire,  in  comparison  with  which  the  warfare  of 
Napoleon  beyond  the  white  Alpine  barriers  was 
a  momentary  and  hardly  discernible  spark, 
leaving  no  mark  on  the  eternal  rocks,  though 
so  striking  to  the  minds  of  men.  And  then,  like 
Boccaccio's  company  in  the  beautiful  garden  at 
Florence  in  the  time  of  the  Plague,  they  could 
forget  all  the  horrors  of  subjugated  kingdoms, 
and  the  legions  of  dead  and  wounded  in  the 
battles,  and  speak  of  the  lighter  dramas  of 
the  stage,  the  characters  in  the  last  novel,  or 
the  last  poem  or  music  that  had  made  peaceful 
conquest  in  Italy,  Germany,  or  Britain. 

It  was  said  of  the  central  star  of  this  society 
at  Geneva  that  Anne  Louise  always  remained 
young  and  that  she  had  never  been  a  child. 
But  she  loved  to  speak  of  her  young  days.  The 
dramatic  instinct  showed  itself  even  in  her  toys. 
She  would  cut  out  little  figures  of  Kings  and 
Queens,  each  in  differently  coloured  paper,  and 
recite  for  them  the  speeches  she  imagined  each 
would  have  made  in  life.  Her  mother  had 
strict  ideas,  and  would  not  allow  such  theatrical 
games.  But  Louise  went  on  doing  it  when  sure 
not  to  be  found  out.  When  she  was  ten  years 
of  age  the  great  English  historian  Gibbon,  who 
wrote  much  of  his  book  at  Berne,  visited  Coppet, 
and  her  father,  Necker,  praising  him,  the  little  girl 
said  she  would  marry  Gibbon  so  that  her  beloved 
Papa  might  enjoy  yet  more  of  his  company  and 
conversation  !  At  fifteen  she  wrote  a  "  Summary 
of  the  Spirit  of  Laws,"  which  astonished  the 
literary  friends  of  her  father.  She  wrote  also 
plays.  Very  emotional,  she  was  in  danger  of 
suffering  in  health  from  the  woes  and  joys  of 
the    creatures    of    her    own    imagination.     She 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  5G3 

loved  France.  Queen  Marie  Antoinette,  having 
made  M.  Necker's  acquaintance  while  he  was  yet 
a  poor  man,  persuaded  Gustavus  the  Third  of 
Sweden  to  nominate  de  Stael  as  his  Ambassador 
at  her  Court  on  the  condition  he  would  marry 
Louise  Necker.  She  was  married  to  him  when 
twenty  years  of  age.  The  young  bride  was  so 
occupied  with  her  own  thoughts  that  she  was 
absent-minded  about  dress,  forgot  to  curtsey 
at  the  Tuileries,  and  even  left  her  bonnet  in  the 
carriage  when  she  went  one  day  to  visit  a  great 
lady  of  the  Court. 

A  great  literary  success  came  with  the  publi- 
cation of  "  Letters  on  Jean  Jacques  Rousseau." 
Then  came  the  bright  and  many  years  passed 
close  to  the  blue  waters  of  Lake  Leman  in  the 
charming  house  which  remains  as  when  she 
lived  there.  After  her  mother's  death,  letter  on 
letter,  work  on  work,  from  her  pen  appeared. 
It  was  said  that  her  novel  *'Delphine,"  which 
appeared  in  1802,  represented  herself  in  reality, 
while  the  other  novel,  **Corinne,"  represented 
herself  idealised.  Her  father,  Necker,  also 
offended  Napoleon,  who  called  the  father  '*  un 
Regent  dc  College  bien  lourd  et  bien  boursoufle." 
His  daughter  called  the  tyrant  "  Robespierre  a 
cheval."  "  Corinne  "  was  written  after  Necker's 
death.  Excursions  were  made  into  France,  but 
she  was  always  compelled  to  retrace  her  steps. 
Even  at  Geneva  her  luggage  was  searched,  and 
she  was  made  to  feel  that  her  enemy  Napoleon's 
influence  could  reach  her.  The  Prefect  told  her 
that,  if  she  would  write  something  to  celebrate 
the  birth  of  Napoleon's  child  (styled  the  King 
of  Rome),  it  would  be  possible  for  the  Genevan 
Government  to  favour  her  in  many  ways. 
"  What   can   I  say  ?  "     she  replied.     "  Do   you 


5G4     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

wish  me  to  say  all  that  is  possible  to  say  ?  I 
will  say,  I  wish  him  a  good  wet-nurse  !  "  He 
persisted  saying  that  by  writing  a  few  pages 
the  money  of  Napoleon's  treasury  would  be  made 
to  flow  towards  her.  But  she  only  answered,  "  I 
knew  that  a  certificate  is  necessary  to  touch  a 
salary,  but  I  did  not  know  that  one  had  to  give 
a  declaration  of  love." 

Madame  d'Arblay  mentions  Madame  de 
Stael's  admirable  conduct  in  exerting  herself 
for  the  liberation  of  the  prisoners  of  "  The 
Terror,"  when  every  one  who  was  in  any  way 
distinguished  was  doomed  to  the  guillotine. 
M.  de  Goncourt,  a  deputy,  had  the  courage  in 
the  Assembly  to  speak  for  King  and  Constitution. 
He  resigned  his  membership  on  finding  that  only 
twenty-four  members  voted  with  him.  By  this 
he  lost  his  right  of  freedom  from  arrest,  and  he 
was  seized  and  without  any  form  of  trial  cast 
into  prison.  Madame  de  Stael,  as  the  Swedish 
Minister's  wife,  running  the  risk  which  even  in 
her  position  was  not  small,  managed  to  procure 
his  release.  She  saved  many  whom  she  knew 
from  death.  Although  her  health  was  bad  at 
the  time,  she  walked  every  day  to  the  Hotel  de 
Ville  because  no  carriages  were  allowed  to  drive 
in  the  streets,  and  shut  herself  up  for  five  hours 
together  with  the  tyrants  of  the  Committee  of 
Surveillance  who,  working  through  spies  and 
informers,  were  daily  sending  dozens  to  execu- 
tion, and  she  obtained  liberty  for  over  twentj^ 
prisoners  through  her  own  unaided  intercession. 
Her  eloquence  and  her  high  official  position 
had  an  effect  that  nothing  else  could  have 
produced. 

Dr.  Burney  wrote  :    "I  am  not  at  all  sur- 
prised at  the  captivating  powers  of  Madame  de 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  565 

Stael.  It  corresponds  witli  the  opinion  I  formed 
on  reading  her  charming  little  '  Apologie  de 
Rousseau.'  But  she  has  not  escaped  censure. 
Her  house  was  the  centre  of  Revolutionists 
previous  to  the  10th  August.  But  perhaps  all 
this  may  be  Jacobinical  malignity.  But  you 
know  that  M.  Necker's  [Madame  de  Stacl's 
father's]  administration,  and  the  conduct  of  the 
nobles  who  first  joined  in  the  violent  measures 
that  subverted  the  ancient  establishment,  by 
the  abolition  of  nobility  and  the  ruin  of  the 
Church,  during  the  first  National  Assembly,  are 
held  in  greater  horror  b}'^  aristocrats  [in  France] 
than  even  the  members  of  the  present  Conven- 
tion. If  you  are  not  absolutely  in  the  house  of 
Madame  de  Stacl  when  this  letter  arrives,  it 
may  be  possible  for  you  to  waive  the  visit  to 
her." 

This  was  addressed  to  Miss  Burney.  She 
answered  :  "  As  to  her  house  being  the  centre 
of  Revolutionists,  it  was  so  only  for  the  Court 
Nationalists,  who  were  not  only  members  of 
the  then  established  Government,  but  were  the 
decided  friends  of  the  King.  The  aristocrats 
were  then  already  banished,  or  wanderers  from 
fear,  or  concealed  and  silent  from  cowardice, 
and  the  Jacobins,  I  need  not  mention  how  utterly 
abhorrent  to  her  must  be  that  fiend-like  set." 

Of  the  impression  made  by  her  writing,  she 
said  when  speaking  of  Madame  de  Stael's 
"  Germany  "  :  "In  reading  her  book  I  perpetually 
longed  to  write  to  her.  .  .  .  The  Pleasure,  the 
Transport  rather  with  which  I  read  nearly  every 
phrase  :  such  acutencss  of  thought,  sucli  viva- 
city of  ideas,  and  such  brilliancy  of  expression, 
I  know  not  where  I  have  met  before.  I  often 
lay  the  book  down  to  enjoy  for  a  considerable 


566     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

time  a  single  sentence.  I  have  rarely  ever,  in 
the  course  of  my  whole  life,  read  anything  with 
so  glowing  a  fulness  of  applause." 

It  was  this  work,  "  De  I'Allemagne,"  which 
first  brought  upon  its  author  the  penalty  of 
exile.  The  censor  appointed  by  the  Govern- 
ment to  supervise  all  publications  had  passed 
it  as  harmless.  A  very  large  edition  was 
printed,  as  it  was  expected  there  would  be  a 
demand  for  at  least  10,000  copies.  Then  orders 
were  issued,  and  the  police  confiscated  every- 
thing. The  Prefect  came  and  demanded  also 
the  whole  of  her  manuscript.  She  went  to 
Coppet  and  wrote :  "  I  have  fallen  into  a  state 
of  frightful  melancholy.  .  .  .  Here  are  six  years 
of  labour,  study,  and  travel  entirely  wasted. 
Do  you  fully  comprehend  the  singularity  of 
this  affair  ?  It  is  the  first  two  volumes  already 
approved  by  the  censor  that  have  been  seized. 
So  I  am  exiled  because  I  have  written  a  book 
which  has  been  approved  by  the  Emperor's 
censors.  I  could  have  printed  it  in  Germany. 
I  came  of  my  own  free  will  to  submit  it.  Ah, 
mon  Dieu !  I  am  the  Orestes  of  Exile,  and  fate 
pursues  me  !  I  am  encompassed  by  such  a 
cloud  of  sorrow  that  I  know  not  what  I  write." 

On  her  death-bed  she  summoned  the  members 
of  her  family  and  confided  to  them  that  she  had 
contracted  a  secret  marriage  with  young  M.  de 
Rocca.  This  man  had  been  for  years  desperately 
enamoured  of  her,  and  the  vanity  which  was 
part  of  her  curious  character  did  not  allow 
her  to  refuse  him,  or  to  take  his  name,  that 
of  de  Stael  being  superior  in  rank.  M.  de 
Rocca  died  only  a  few  months  after  her,  and 
"  all  Paris  "  acknowledged  the  unselfishness  which 
distinguished    her    family    in    their    conduct   to 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  567 

him,  and  the  generosity  of  her  son-in-law  the 
Due  de  BrogUe  in  the  respect  and  affection 
with  which  he  always  treated  the  memory 
of  Madame  de  Stael. 

Among  her  last  words  as  she  lay  dying  in 
July  1817  were :  "  I  believe  I  know  what  the 
passage  is  from  life  to  death,  and  I  feel  sure  that 
God's  goodness  will  soften  it." 

Mr.  Noel  Williams  translates  the  beautiful 
Madame  Recamier's  account  of  her  first  meeting 
with  Madame  de  Stael :  "  One  day,  and  that  marks 
an  epoch  in  my  life,  M.  Recamier  arrived  at 
Clichy  with  a  lady  whom  he  did  not  introduce 
by  name,  and  whom  he  left  alone  with  me  in 
the  salon  while  he  went  to  join  some  people 
who  were  in  the  park.  This  lady  came  about 
the  sale  of  a  house.  Her  costume  was  peculiar  ; 
she  wore  a  morning  gown  and  a  little  dress- 
hat  trimmed  with  llowers.  I  took  her  for  a 
foreigner.  I  was  struck  with  the  beauty  of 
her  eyes  and  expression.  I  was  unable  to 
analyse  my  feelings,  but  I  am  sure  I  was  think- 
ing more  of  finding  out,  or  rather  guessing  who 
she  was,  than  of  addressing  to  her  the  usual 
commonplaces,  when  she  said  to  me,  with  an 
air  at  once  charming  and  impressive,  that  she 
was  truly  delighted  to  make  my  acquaintance  ; 

that  her  father,  M.  Necker At  these  words 

I  recognised  Madame  de  Stael.  I  did  not  hear 
the  rest  of  her  sentence.  I  blushed  and  was 
extremely  embarrassed.  I  had  just  been  read- 
ing her  letters  on  Rousseau,  in  the  perusal  of 
which  I  was  extremely  interested.  My  looks 
were  more  expressive  than  my  words ;  she 
both  awed  and  attracted  me.  I  was  conscious 
at  once  of  her  genuineness  and  her  superiority. 


568     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

She  on  her  side  fixed  her  splendid  eyes  on  me, 
and  paid  me  some  comphments  on  my  appear- 
ance that  would  have  been  too  exaggerated 
and  direct  had  they  not  seemed  to  escape  her 
unconsciously,  thus  giving  to  her  praises  an 
irresistible  fascination.  My  embarrassment  did 
me  no  harm  :  she  understood  it,  and  expressed 
the  hojoe  of  seeing  a  great  deal  of  me  on  her 
return  to  Paris,  for  she  Avas  on  the  point  of 
starting  for  Coppet.  This  interview  was  only 
a  passing  one,  but  it  left  a  deep  impression  on 
me.  I  thought  only  of  Madame  de  Stacl,  so 
much  did  I  feel  the  influence  of  that  strong 
and  earnest  personality." 

The  Chateau  of  Coppet  is  still  shown  to  tourists 
who  make  a  stay  at  Geneva.  Taking  the 
steamer,  after  touching  Bellevue  and  Versoix, 
they  come  in  sight  of  Coppet.  The  walls  of  the 
little  town,  the  picturesque  houses,  the  ancient 
church,  are  seen  reflected  in  the  waters  of  the 
lake.  The  tiled  roofs  of  the  old  houses,  of  varied 
tints,  rise  one  above  the  other  on  the  hill-side ; 
overlooking  them  all  stands  the  Chateau. 

There  is  a  street  bordered  with  heavy  arcades 
resting  on  enormous  pillars  which  support  the 
facades  of  the  houses.  At  the  entrance  to  the 
building  the  front  court  is  skirted  to  right  and 
left  by  lodges  of  one  storey,  and  is  bounded  to 
the  east  by  the  western  wing  of  the  Castle.  A 
vaulted  passage  leads  to  the  principal  court, 
enclosed  between  the  main  part  of  the  building 
and  the  two  wings  with  their  circular  towers, 
one  of  which  is  very  old. 

The  origin  of  the  Barony  of  Coppet  is  not 
known.  Amongst  the  proprietors  into  whose 
hands  the  place  has  passed  were  Michel  de  Viry, 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  569 

Amedce  de  Beaufort,  and  Claude  Antoine  de 
Vienne  in  the  sixteenth  century ;  the  Due  de 
Lesdiguicres,  Daniel  de  Bcllujon,  and  the  Baron 
de  Villeneuve  (whose  three  daughters  had  as 
tutor  the  renowned  Bayle)  in  the  seventeenth 
century ;  Sigismond  d'Erlach  and  Germain  de 
Thclusson  in  the  eighteenth  century.  The  last- 
named  sold  the  Castle  on  the  3rd  May,  1784, 
for  a  sum  of  500,000  francs  in  French  money, 
to  the  great  Necker,  who  died  there  in  1804, 
leaving  the  whole  property  to  his  daughter 
Madame  de  Stael. 

In  the  entrance  hall  is  a  marble  statue  of 
Necker  by  Canova,  representing  the  Minister 
of  Louis  XVI.  delivering  a  speech.  This  hall 
opens  on  to  the  library,  where  Madame  de  Stael 
gave  her  receptions.  Here  it  was  that  she 
donnait  la  comedie,  playing  parts  herself  in 
those  performances. 

This  library  is  still  furnished  with  Madame 
de  Stael's  furniture.  Bookcases  containing  a 
most  valuable  collection  of  literature  cover  the 
walls,  pictures  dating  from  the  end  of  the  reign 
of  the  unfortunate  Louis  XVI.,  a  chest  con- 
taining "  the  State  Account  Papers  presented 
to  the  King  by  M.  Necker."  These  papers 
constituted  the  first  State  Budget. 

A  door  gives  access  to  Madame  de  Stael's 
bedroom,  containing  her  bed,  a  sofa  and  arm- 
chair ;  glass-cases  with  her  famous  turban, 
the  gold  key,  symbol  of  Madame  de  Stael's 
function  as  Ambassadress,  and  the  letters  of 
freedom  of  the  city  given  to  Necker  by  the 
cities  of  Geneva  and  Besan^on.  Necker's  desk 
and  armchair  are  still  in  their  places.  Amongst 
the  portraits  is  one  of  Madame  de  Stael  and 
another  of  Necker,  others  of  Madame  de  Stael 

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570     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

and  her  son  Augustus,  and  of  Madame  Necker 
and  Madame  Recamier  on  their  death-beds. 

In  the  adjoining  room,  which  was  Madame 
Recamier's  bedroom,  there  is  a  case  containing 
numerous  autographs  ;  a  letter  with  the  seal 
and  signature  of  Louis  XVI.,  the  foundation 
deed  of  the  Necker  Hospital  in  Paris,  letters 
by  Buffon,  Schlegel,  Madame  Necker,  Madame 
Recamier,  and  one  of  Madame  de  Stael's  manu- 
scripts. 

A  fine  staircase  leads  to  the  first  floor.  The 
large  salon,  decorated  with  Aubusson  tapestry, 
has  portraits  of  Madame  d'Haussonville,  then 
Duchesse  de  Broglie(by  Ingres),  Prince  de  Broglie, 
Duchesse  de  Broglie,  Madame  de  Stael,  Jean 
Jacques  Rousseau,  Mirabeau,  Schlegel,  Madame 
Geoffrin,  and  Madame  Necker.  In  the  adjoining 
room  are  portraits  of  Madame  de  Stael  as  Corinne 
by  Gerard  ;  of  M.  and  Madame  Curchod  Necker, 
both  by  Duplessis  ;  of  Madame  de  Stael  as 
Ambassadress  ;  of  M.  Aug.  de  Stael,  her  son  ; 
of  the  Duchesse  de  Broglie  by  Ary  Scheffer ;  of 
Madame  de  Stael  as  a  child,  etc.  On  a  piece  of 
furniture  in  one  part  of  the  room  is  a  beautiful 
breakfast  service  in  Dresden  china  which  M.  de 
Buffon  received  from  Prince  Henry  of  Prussia 
and  bequeathed  to  Madame  de  Stael.  Here 
also  are  Madame  de  Stael's  harpsichord,  M.  de 
Stael's  sword  and  walking-stick,  and  the  swords, 
pistols,  and  other  objects  employed  in  the 
dramatic  representations  organised  by  Madame 
de  Stael. 

Coleridge  describes  Coppet  as  "  a  large  baronial 
Chateau,  forming  three  sides  of  a  square,  the 
fourth  opening  on  a  single  paddock,  which  they 
call  a  Park  here.  It  stands  on  the  borders 
pf    the    Lake,    but    hp.s    the    village    between 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  571 

it  and  the  shores,  so  that  you  look  from  the 
drawing-room  on  tlie  roofs  of  the  houses. 
Madame  de  Stael  is  very  rich  and  has  her  house 
always  full  of  company,  but  it  is  badly  furnished, 
and  an  Englishman  sees  a  great  air  of  desolation 
and  untidiness.  Her  breakfasts  are  very  odd, 
stewed  beef,  fried  potatoes,  etc.,  but  she  gives 
a  good  dinner  and  excellent  wines. 

"  In  her  manners  she  is  very  agreeable,  but 
not,  I  think,  what  we  would  call  very  well  bred  ; 
her  attentions  are  not  equally  divided  among 
her  guests,  but  she  seems  to  attach  herself  to 
the  person  from  whom  she  can  derive  most 
information,  a  selfish  sort  of  politeness.  On 
the  morning  on  which  I  breakfasted  with  her, 
General  Lambert  and  I  had  a  great  deal  of 
political  discussion  with  her.  She  blamed  our 
ministers  for  want  of  energy  in  exterior  policy, 
and  thought  we  ought  to  give  the  Cortes  an 
army  to  resist  Ferdinand's  measures,  and  the 
Italians  another  to  make  them  independent. 
She  said  it  was  very  melancholy  to  think  that 
Bonaparte,  the  worst  of  despots,  was  universally 
regarded  in  Italy  as  the  friend  of  Freedom, 
and  that  the  saviours  of  the  world,  the  English, 
were  there  regarded  as  the  friends  of  Tyranny 
and  unjust  conquest.  Then  discussing  the 
Hberty  of  the  Press  she  asserted  that  France 
was  retrograde  in  all  the  arts  and  sciences  ; 
that  she  did  not  know  ten  young  men  who 
could  read  the  Classic  Authors  in  the  original — 
that  whereas  in  England  there  were  at  least 
10,000  people  who  could  do  it,  there  were  not 
600  in  France  ;  that  the  law  which  subjected 
small  pamphlets  only  to  the  censure  was  art- 
fully framed  and  conclusive  upon  the  whole  for 
small  pamphlets,  and  the  journals  were  literally 


572     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

all  that  the  French  read.  Then,  in  a  very 
luminous  manner,  she  took  the  constitution  to 
pieces,  and  showed  the  essential  difference  be- 
tween it  and  the  English,  and  how  the  two 
Houses  from  their  very  nature  must  always 
remain  dependent  on  the  Crown.  She  gave 
General  Lambert  and  me  an  account  of  a  visit 
which  Joseph  Bonaparte  had  lately  made  to  her. 
It  is  certainly  most  honourable  to  her  feelings 
that,  at  this  time,  she  should  receive  the  brother 
of  her  persecutor,  because  when  King  of  Naples 
he  had  offered  her  an  asylum  in  his  kingdom. 
She  said  he  was  the  vainest  man  she  ever  met 
with,  brilliant  in  conversation  and  of  a  good 
person.  Madame  de  Stael  has  one  daughter, 
Albertine,  who  possesses  all  her  mother's  bril- 
liancy and  more  than  her  accomplishments." 

The  life  led  by  the  visitors  at  this  house 
must  have  been  interesting  and  amusing.  For 
the  early  part  of  the  morning  the  guests  were 
left  to  themselves — a  cup  of  coffee  was  served 
to  them  in  their  rooms,  and  there  was  a  general 
meeting  for  breakfast  at  an  hour  we  should 
nowadays  consider  very  late.  The  society  was 
one  of  a  haphazard  kind,  for  men  and  women 
came  and  went  according  to  a  general  invitation 
telling  them  they  might  present  themselves  when 
they  chose,  if  they  only  wrote  a  little  time 
before  from  Geneva,  or  some  more  distant 
point,  to  say  they  might  be  expected.  There 
were  often  English  and  Germans  and  Frenchmen 
and  Italians,  the  more  distinguished  the  more 
welcome,  for  the  mistress  of  the  house  loved 
to  have  people  whose  names  were  known,  if 
only  the  distinction  was  not  that  of  being  a 
friend  of  the  First  Consul.  Authors  were  greeted 
with    effusion.      From    the    moment    that    the 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  573 

breakfast  or  early  lunch  began  until  midnight 
there  was  an  incessant  flow  of  talk,  stimulated 
by  the  mistress  of  the  intellectual  revels. 

The  Comtesse  de  Boigne,  whose  Memoirs  have 
lately  been  published,  describes  the  effect  on  her 
of  the  appearance  of  Madame  de  Stacl.  "  At 
first,"  she  says,  "  Madame  de  Stael  seemed  to 
me  ugly  and  ridiculous.  A  big  red  face,  a  com- 
plexion by  no  means  fresh,  hair  arranged  in  a 
manner  which  she  called  picturesque,  in  other 
words,  badly  done,  arms  and  shoulders  bare, 
a  white  muslin  blouse  and  no  shawl,  or  veil  of 
any  kind.  .  .  .  She  held  a  small  twig  which 
she  was  constantly  twiddling  in  her  fingers, 
with  the  object,  I  think,  of  showing  off  a  very 
beautiful  hand.  At  the  end  of  an  hour  I  was 
entirely  under  her  charm." 

And  so  were  the  guests  of  all  sorts.  She 
commanded  where  they  siiould  go,  what  they 
should  see,  who  was  to  be  of  her  special  party 
in  any  excursion,  who  was  to  read  his  verses, 
or  article,  or  book  ;  and  in  the  evening,  when  at 
last  the  endless  talk  ceased,  there  was  rapt 
attention,  a  most  appreciative  audience  for  the 
man  or  woman  who  was  distinguished  by  her 
order  to  recite  or  read.  Very  often  also  the 
little  theatre  was  arranged  for  acting,  and 
Madame  de  Stael  herself  loved  to  take  part 
in  the  performances.  She  attempted,  and  suc- 
ceeded, not  only  in  holding  her  old  Salon  as 
in  Paris,  but  in  making  her  house  the  birthplace 
of  inspiration  for  new  works  of  the  fancy  and 
intellect.  It  was  said  that  the  chief  word  used 
in  speaking  of  any  one  was  the  word  "  talent." 
Almost  everything  was  judged  by  the  standard 
whether  a  person  had,  or  had  not,  "  talent." 
Coppet  was  a  microcosm  of  the  European  world 


574     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  talent.  And  amid  all  the  bright  talk  of 
literature  and  art  and  science  men  were  glad 
to  be  free  for  a  time  from  the  anxieties  of  states- 
manship, although  they  lamented  their  exile, 
and  were  preparing  in  the  enforced  retirement 
of  Switzerland  plans  for  the  conduct  of  political 
events  to  be  enacted  in  the  future  in  half  the 
capitals  of  Europe. 

The  Comtesse  de  Boigne  relates  how  Madame 
de  Stael,  on  the  restoration  of  the  French  Royal 
Family,  "  arrived  very  soon  after  the  King.  Her 
happiness  at  returning  to  Paris  was  increased 
by  the  joy  she  felt  in  showing  off  the  young 
beauty  of  her  charming  daughter.  In  spite 
of  her  hair  of  a  somewhat  daring  colour  and 
a  few  freckles,  Albertine  de  Stael  was  one  of 
the  most  delightful  persons  I  ever  met,  and 
her  face  had  an  ideal  and  angelic  purity  such  as 
I  have  never  seen  in  any  one  else.  Her  mother 
was  very  happy,  and  very  proud  of  her.  She 
was  thinking  of  marrying  her.  Suitors  soon 
came  forward.  I  think  Madame  de  Stael  used 
her  authority  to  lead  her  daughter's  choice  to 
a  Duke  and  Peer.  It  was  by  more  personal  gifts 
that  the  Due  de  Broglie  justified  the  preference 
accorded  to  him.  The  hatred  she  had  for 
Bonaparte  made  her  a  great  Royalist.  I  fre- 
quently saw  her.  At  my  house  she  expressed 
my  own  sentiments,  but  at  her  own  house  I 
was  often  scandalised  by  the  conversation  of 
her  set.  She  admitted  all  opinions  and  all  ways 
of  expressing  them,  and  would  fight  to  the  death 
for  the  cause  she  upheld.  But  she  always 
finished  these  bouts  with  a  courteous  parade, 
for  she  did  not  care  to  deprive  her  salon  of  any 
adept  at  this  kind  of  fencing  who  could  bring 
into    it    any    variety.     She    liked    all    kinds    of 


^.''^ 


cak:catikk  oi-  m.mk.   ni:  stavl 

Hi/  Kirk-pel  rick  Sliarp 


p.  574] 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  575 

notabilities,  whether  of  intellect  or  of  rank, 
and  even  those  whose  fame  was  due  to  the 
violence  of  their  opinions.  I  often  left  her 
salon  indignant  at  the  language  there  used. 
We  went  to  say  good-bye  to  her.  A  young 
man  leaning  on  her  armchair  was  declaiming  in 
so  hostile  a  way  against  the  Royal  Government, 
and  showing  that  he  was  passionately  devoted 
to  the  Bonapartists,  that  Madame  de  Stael, 
after  vainly  attempting  to  bring  his  vindictive 
eloquence  to  a  playful  tone,  was  compelled  in 
spite  of  her  habitual  tolerance  to  silence  him." 

Madame  de  Stael  in  her  later  days  at  Paris 
produced  more  wonder  than  admiration  among 
the  foreigners  who  visited  her.  One  of  these 
wrote  ;  "  Madame  de  Stael  was  one  of  the 
most  singular- looking  foreign  monsters  that  I 
ever  beheld.  Her  face  was  that  of  a  blackamoor 
attempted  to  be  washed  white.  She  wore  a  wig 
like  a  bunch  of  withered  heather,  and  over  that 
a  turban  which  looked  as  if  it  had  been  put  on 
in  the  dark  ;  a  short  neck,  and  shoulders  rising 
so  much  behind  that  they  almost  amounted  to 
a  hump.  With  this  ugliness  all  the  airs  of  a 
beauty,  for  ever  tormenting  her  shawl  into  new 
draperies,  and  distorting  her  fingers  as  you 
see  them  in  the  ridiculous  French  portraits  by 
Mignard  and  his  followers.  As  to  her  con- 
versation, for  people  who  like  long  rhapsodies, 
scarcely  intelligible,  the  theme  chosen  by  the 
speaker,  I  daresay  it  was  charming  :  for  my  own 
part  I  had  the  bad  taste  not  to  be  able  to  endure 
either  her  writings  or  discourses.  I  believe 
Posterity  will  be  of  my  mind  as  to  the  former — 
of  the  latter  it  cannot  judge." 

In  her  drawing-room  at  Paris  even  so  late  as 
1816  it  was  said  of  her,  that  she  had  the  "  rare 


57G     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

talent,  never  possessed  by  any  other  person,  of 
uniting  around  her  the  most  distinguished  in- 
dividuals of  all  the  opposite  parties,  literary 
and  political,  and  making  them  establish  rela- 
tions among  themselves  which  they  could  not 
afterwards  entirely  shake  off.  There  might  be 
found  Wellington  and  Lafayette,  Chateaubriand, 
Talleyrand,  and  Prince  Laval  (Montmorenci)  ; 
Humboldt  and  Bliicher  from  Berlin  ;  Constant 
and  Sismondi  from  Switzerland ;  the  two 
Schlegels  from  Hanover  ;  Canova  from  Italy  ; 
the  beautiful  Madame  Recamier  and  the  admir- 
able Duchesse  de  Duras  ;  and  from  England 
such  a  multitude,  that  it  seemed  like  a  general 
emigration  of  British  talent  and  rank  !  " 

On  a  visit  to  Vienna  Madame  de  Stael  as  usual 
had  a  salon,  gave  large  parties  and  theatricals. 
She  wrote  a  play  on  Hagar  in  the  Desert.  The 
Due  de  Luynes  was  fond  of  acting,  and  was 
one  of  her  guests.  But  though  he  received  a 
part  to  act  in  another  play,  he  got  none  in  this 
play  of  his  hostess,  and  was  by  no  means  pleased 
that  what  he  considered  his  powers  of  acting 
had  been  overlooked.  So  he  went  and  sat 
in  the  audience,  and  when  Madame  de  Stael 
came  in  as  Hagar,  coarsely  dressed  in  desert 
"  outfit,"  old  De  Luynes  said  aloud  to  his 
neighbour,  as  though  he  knew  nothing  about 
the  play,  "  And  pray  what  does  this  play 
call  itself  ?  "  *'  Ah,"  said  his  neighbour,  "  you 
don't  know  ?  It  is  Hagar  in  the  Desert." 
"  Well,"  said  the  Due,  '^  I  for  my  part  would 
style  it  *  The  Justification  of  Abraham.'  " 

The  impression  made  by  Madame  de  Stael's 
writing  on  her  English  contemporaries  may  be 
seen  from  Lady  Charlotte  Campbell's  letters : 
"  Read   Madame   de   Stael    '  sur   les   Passions.' 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  577 

What  a  wonderful  mind  is  hers  !  What  an 
insight  she  has  into  the  recesses  of  human  feel- 
ing !  How  many  secret  springs  does  she  un- 
lock !  and  how  much  the  woman — the  tender, 
the  kind,  the  impassioned  woman — betrays  her- 
self even  in  the  philosophy  of  her  writings  ! 
But  what  do  men  think  of  a  woman  authoress  ? 
With  one  or  two  great  exceptions,  women  are 
sneered  at  who  venture  on  the  public  arena  of 
literature ;  and  there  is  not  a  man  existing 
perhaps  who  does  not  think  that  those  women 
are  happiest  who  do  not  attempt  that  bold  and 
dangerous  adventure— authorship  !  " 

She  speaks  of  the  famous  author's  political 
activity :  "  Bernadotte  was  instigated  against 
Bonaparte  by  one  who  not  only  owed  him  a 
personal  hatred,  but  who  possessed  a  mind  equal 
to  his,  and  who  gave  Bernadotte  both  informa- 
tion and  advice  how  to  act.  This  was  no  less 
a  person  than  Madame  de  Stack  It  was  not,  as 
some  have  asserted,  that  she  was  in  love  with 
Bernadotte,  for  at  the  time  of  their  intimacy 
Madame  de  Stael  was  in  love  with  young  Rocca 
[whom  she  married].  But  she  used  her  influence, 
which  was  not  small,  with  the  Crown  Prince  [of 
Sweden]  to  make  him  fight  against  Bonaparte, 
and  to  her  wisdom  may  be  attributed  much  of 
the  success  which  accompanied  his  attack  upon 
him.  Bernadotte  has  raised  the  llame  of 
Liberty,  which  seems  fortunately  to  blaze  all 
around." 

"  I  dined  with  Madame  de  Stael.  It  is  always 
delightful  to  be  in  her  society.  Even  those 
persons  who  have  been  most  hostile  to  her 
have  generally  been  subjugated  by  her  sincerity, 
her  kindness,  and  the  charm  of  her  conversation, 
which,  unlike  that  of  any  other  person,  in  giving 


578     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

out  her  own  ideas,  awakens  those  of  her  hearers, 
and  draws  them,  as  it  were  in  spite  of  them- 
selves, to  a  reciprocity  of  communication.  Thus 
it  was  that  she  acquired  a  knowledge  of  man- 
kind which  superseded  all  that  books  can  ever 
teach." 

"  It  would  be  wholly  unfair  to  judge  Madame 
de  Stael  by  any  common  standard  of  her  sex. 
In  all  that  pertained  to  mind,  she  was  of  no  sex. 
The  quahties  that  are  supposed  to  belong  to 
man  alone — vigour  of  understanding,  abstract 
reasoning,  vastness  of  conception,  the  power  of 
overleaping  or  discarding  all  minor  considera- 
tions to  arrive  at  a  conclusion — ^were  peculiarly 
her  attributes.  She  was  ambitious,  not  vain, 
and  showed  it  so  that  little  minds  could  not 
understand  the  bonhoinie  which  avowed  itself 
athirst  for  commendation — not  that  of  contem- 
porary praise,  but  the  lasting  eulogy  of  well- 
earned  fame. 

"  It  was  not  wise  to  betray  this  feeling.  It 
gave  an  ample  field  for  detractors  to  carp  at, 
and  it  sometimes  degenerated  into  an  egotism 
that  distressed  her  admirers.  She  was  unhappy 
in  her  affections  in  early  life,  and  when  at  last 
she  fixed  the  heart  of  a  gay  and  handsome  man, 
I  have  heard  her  say,  as  she  watched  the  ap- 
proach of  that  fatal  disease  consumption.  All  I 
pray  for  is  to  die  before  him.  Her  prayer  was 
granted.  Her  kindness  to  her  inferiors  in  station 
and  in  intellect,  her  total  freedom  from  all 
affectation,  her  strong  sense  of  natural  religion, 
the  enthusiasm  of  her  nature,  were  qualities  as 
admirable  as  they  were  attractive.  It  was 
impossible  for  any  one  to  like  her  by  halves  : 
she  was  destined  to  be  either  loved  or  hated. 
No  wonder  Bonaparte  did  the  latter.     Perhaps 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  579 

she  was  the  only  human  being  he  feared  and 
could  not  conquer." 

Mr.  Gill's  account  of  her  re-establishment  in 
Paris  after  Bonaparte's  misfortunes  shows  her 
more  active  than  ever :  *'  The  Stael  is  safely 
lodged  at  Paris,  and  is  to  give  parties  immedi- 
ately to  all  the  great  characters — the  Emperor 
of  Russia,  *  L'Infmi,'  the  King  of  Prussia, 
*  L'Impossible,'  and  in  short  the  heroes  of  all 
ages  and  principles,  with  the  intention  of 
extracting  from  the  mass  the  real  quintessence 
and  vital  principle  of  virtue,  in  a  hydrogen 
state,  which  she  means  to  have  ready  in  bottles 
for  exportation  !  N.B.  None  are  genuine  but 
those  sealed  with  her  own  arms,  viz.  gules,  two 
arms  akimbo  surmounted  by  a  Saracen's  head, 
[see  caricature]  sable,  crowned  with  a  French 
Pyx  ;  crest,  a  cock  and  bull  :  badge,  a  cat  and 
bladders.  These  have  all  been  conferred  by 
Louis  XVIII.  on  his  last  visit  to  London." 

Lady  Holland  in  London  in  1813  says  :  *'  The 
great  wonder  of  the  time  is  Madame  de  Stael. 
She  is  surrounded  by  all  the  curious,  and  every 
sentence  she  utters  is  caught  and  repeated  with 
various  commentaries.  Her  first  appearance 
was  at  Lady  Jersey's,  where  Lady  Hertford  also 
was,  and  looked  most  scornfully  at  her,  pre- 
tending her  determination  not  to  receive  her, 
as  she  was  an  atheist  !  and  immoral  woman. 
This  harsh  resolve  was  mitigated  by  an  observa- 
tion very  agreeable  to  the  observer — ^that  her 
personal  charms  have  greatly  improved  within 
the  last  twenty-five  years.  She  [Madame  de  Stael] 
is  violent  against  the  Emperor,  who,  she  says, 
is  not  a  man  :  '  Ce  n'est  point  un  homme  mais 
un  systeme  ' — an  incarnation  of  the  Revolu- 
tion.    Women  he  considers    only  useful  '  pour 


580      INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

produire  les  consents,'  otherwise  '  c'est  une 
classe  qu'il  voudrait  supprimer.'  She  is  much 
less  ugly  than  I  expected  ;  her  eyes  are  fine, 
and  her  hand  and  arm  very  handsome.  She 
was  flummering  Sheridan  on  the  excellence  of 
his  heart  and  moral  principles,  and  he  in  return 
upon  her  beauty  and  grace.  She  is  to  live  in 
Manchester  Street  and  go  occasionally  to  breathe 
the  country  air  at  Richmond  Inn." 

Let  us  cite  from  Madame  de  Stael's  own  writings 
a  few  lines  to  show  her  position  at  the  time  she 
wrote  these  letters  to  Lord  John  Campbell — • 
namely,  from  1803  onwards.  Napoleon  had 
told  her  to  leave  Paris,  the  only  place  where  she 
thought  she  could  be  happy.  She  was  born 
there— there  also  had  she  passed  her  childhood 
and  her  first  youth.  "  French  conversation," 
she  declared,  ''  existed  only  at  Paris."  There 
in  1802  she  had  made  the  acquaintance  of 
General  Bernadotte,  the  son  of  a  poor  lawyer 
of  the  South  of  France,  who  became  one  of  the 
best  officers  of  the  French  army.  Bernadotte 
was  suspected  of  intriguing  against  Bonaparte, 
who  was  heard  to  say  that  the  men  who  fre- 
quented Madame  de  Stael's  society  at  the 
Swedish  Embassy  were  found  to  be  less  devoted 
to  Napoleon  after  keeping  company  with  those 
they  met  there.  "  Everything  showed  that  he 
was  resolved  to  punish  me."  She  left  Paris  to 
stay  at  Coppet  on  the  Lake  of  Geneva.  "  What 
shocked  the  First  Consul  even  more  than  the 
opinions  attributed  to  me  was  the  number  of 
strangers  who  visited  me.  It  was  a  small 
matter  that  a  woman  existed  with  a  literary 
reputation  that  made  people  wish  to  see  her, 
but  the  fact  that  interest  thus  shown  did  not 
concern   Bonaparte  was   enough   to   make  hin> 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  581 

desire  to  crush  her.  A  symptom  of  his  enmity 
was  the  manner  in  which  the  French  Press 
treated  my  romance  '  Delphine,'  which  appeared 
during  the  winter  of  1802-3.  I  was  at  Geneva, 
hving  among  Enghsh  society  there,  owing  both 
to  a  taste  for  it,  and  also  owing  to  circumstances, 
when  the  declaration  of  war  between  France 
and  England  arrived."  Madame  de  Stacl  then 
recounts  the  amazing  order  for  the  seizure  of 
all  Englishmen  and  their  imprisonment.  It  did 
not  matter  whether  they  were  politicians  or  not. 
Two  thousand  were  arrested. 

Mathieu  de  IMontmorenci,  who  is  frequently 
mentioned  in  the  following  letters,  was  with 
Lafayette  in  America,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  war  of  the  Colonists  against  Britain.  He 
was  accused  by  Fouche,  at  Paris,  of  inducing 
Madame  Recamier  to  refuse  the  office  of  Dame 
du  Palais.  Napoleon  thereupon  sent  him  into 
exile.  He  visited  Madame  Recamier  at  Lyons, 
and  became  Equerry  to  the  Duchcsse  d'Angou- 
Icme.  He  was  appointed  Minister  of  Foreign 
Affairs,  and  was  made  Duke.  He  resigned  after 
the  Congress  at  Verona. 


Madame  de  Stacl  to  Lord  John  CampbelL 

C(jrriCT,  mercrcdi  matin. 

Quoiqu'en  puisse  dire  Robertson,*  my  dear 
Lord,  j'ai  craint  de  trouver  dans  votre  lettre 
une  nuance  de  froideur  pour  moi,  et  je  m'en  suis 
tourmentce.     J'attache   a  votre  amitie  un  prix 

*  Mr.  Robertson,  an  agreeable  medical  and  scientific  gentleman 
who  travelled  with  Lord  John  Campbell. 


582     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

infini,  et  je  vous  le  repete  encor,  quand  j'ai  quitte 
Neufchatel  je  confondois  dans  mes  regrets  et 
dans  mon  coeur  les  deux  amis  a  qui  je  devois 
des  jours  si  heureux  au  milieu  de  ma  triste  et 
monotone  destinee.  Vingt  fois  pendant  les  deux 
jours  que  Robertson  vient  de  me  donner  je  vous 
ai  cherche,  je  vous  ai  demande,  et  comme  Alber- 
tine  je  disoif?,  Mais  pourqiioi  done  Lord  John  n'est- 
il  pas  la  ?  Vous  interdisez  ce  que  vous  appellez 
des  louanges,  mais  n'interdisez  pas  les  expres- 
sions de  I'attachement,  et  pardonnez  a  mon 
caractere  sa  vivacite  exterieure,  puisqu'en  fond 
du  coeur  il  reste  encor  des  sentiments  que  je 
retiens.  C'en  est  done  fait  a  present ;  vous  allez 
partir  a  travers  toute  cette  Allemagne,  a  travers 
toutes  ces  mers  :  quel  serrement  de  coeur  ! 

J'ai  ete  bien  heureuse  en  revoyant  Robertson 
dimanche ;  je  me  suis  fait  dans  ce  moment  une 
illusion  presque  complette  sur  I'avenir,  mais  a 
present  il  est  retombe  sur  mon  coeur,  cet  avenir 
qui  me  separe  de  vous,  cet  avenir  qui  me  separe 
d'une  societe  si  en  harmonic  avec  mes  idees  et 
mes  sentiments  qu'il  me  semble  que  depuis 
long-tems  je  vous  aimois  et  que  je  n'ai  fait  que 
vous  reconnoitre.  Adieu,  my  dear  Lord  ;  plaignez 
moi  de  retomber  dans  la  solitude  du  coeur. 
Ecrivez  moi  pour  me  dire  que  vous  pensez  a  moi. 
Je  veux  avoir  du  courage,  mais  de  toutes  les 
peincs  de  la  vie  la  plus  difficile  a  supporter 
c'est  la  separation,  et  c'est  pour  cela  qu'il  est 
si  fou  de  laisser  gagner  les  affections  par  des 
etrangers  ;  mais  je  n'ai  pas  dans  le  coeur  plus  de 
prevoyance  que  les  sauvages,  et  je  n'espere  ni  ne 
crains  rien  du  lendemain.  Adieu  encor ;  il  me 
semble  que  je  reviens  de  la  porte  pour  vous 
embrasser  encor.  God  bless  you,  et  si  vous  avez 
quelques  peines,  si  I'amitie  d'une  soeur  vous  est 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  583 

necessaire,  revenez  me  trouver  partout,  et  tou- 
jours  mes  affections  les  plus  sinccres  et  les  plus 
tendres  vous  attendent.  Saussure,  malgre  deux 
lettres  de  moi,  a  envoye  a  Zurich  deux  lettres 
arrivees  pour  vous  ;  vous  les  trouverez  la  vendredi, 
et  samedi  je  vous  ecrirai  encor  la,  et  puis  apres  a 
Francfort.  Je  n'espcre  presque  plus  la  paix  avant 
votre  embarcation  ;  je  n'espcre  rien  d'heureux, 
et  mon  ame  est  triste  comme  un  des  jours  de 
votre  climat.  Adieu ;  conservez  de  restime  et  de 
I'affection  pour  une  personne  dont  les  manieres 
different  des  votres,  mais  dont  le  coeur  vous 
ressemble.  Chargez  moi  de  quelque  chose  ici  ou 
en  France  ;  combattez  le  tems  et  faites  qu'il  sub- 
siste  toujours  des  liens  entre  nous.  Adieu  ;  je  ne 
signe  pas,  mais  y  a-t-il  loin  de  votre  famille  une 
femme  dont  vous  puissiez  confondre  I'attache- 
ment  pour  vous  avec  le  mien  ?  Pour  la  dernicre 
fois,  adieu. 

(Addressed)     My  Lord  John  Campbell. 

(Endorsed)  Madame  dc  Stael. 

Coppet, 

1803. 

[Translation.] 

Coppet,   Wednesday. 

Whatever  Robertson  may  say,  ray  dear  Lord,  I  fear 
to  find  in  your  letter  a  trace  of  coolness  towards  me,  and 
I  have  been  tormenting  myself  al)Out  this.  T  cherish  an 
infinite  value  for  your  friendship,  and  I  repeat  once  again 
that  when  I  left  Neufchatel  I  mingled  in  my  regret  and  in 
my  reward  the  two  friends  to  whom  I  owe  such  happy  days 
in  the  midst  of  my  sad  and  monotonous  destiny.  Twentj' 
times  during  the  two  days  when  Rol)ertson  gave  me  his 
company  did  I  seek  news  of  you  and  ask  about  you,  and 
like  Albertine  I  cried.  But  why  is  Lord  John  not  here  ? 
You  forbid  me  to  sing  praises,  as  you  call  it,  but  do  not 
forbid  the  expressions  of  atta.chment,  and  pardou    in   my 


584     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

character  its  natural  vivacity,  for  deep  in  my  heart  remains 
the  feeling  it  must  retain.  It  is  then  over  for  the  present : 
you  cross  all  tliat  wide  Germany  and  over  all  those  seas. 
What  a  heart-ache  I  feel  ! 

I  was  very  happy  to  see  Robertson  again  on  Sunday.     I 
keep  myself  an  almost  complete  illusion  as  regards  the  future, 
but  now  again  it  weighs  down  my  heart,  that  future  which 
separates  me  from  you !  that  future  which  divides  me  from 
a  society  so  in  harmony  with  my  ideas  and  sentiments  that 
it  seems  to  me  that  I  have  loved  you  long,  and  that  I  have 
ahvays  kno^^^l  you.    Adieu,  my  dear  Lord.    Pity  me,  now  that 
I  relapse  again  into  a  heart  solitude.     Write  to  me  to  tell 
me  that  you  are  thinking  of  me.     I  want  to  have  courage, 
but  of  all  the  pains  of  existence  the  most  difficult  to  bear 
is   the   pain   of   separation  ;    that   is   why  it  is  so  foolish  to 
let  one's   affections   be   gained  by  strangers,  but  I  have  no 
more  poAver  of  seeing  into  the  future  than  the  savages,  and 
I  do  not  hope  nor  do  I  fear  for  the  morrow.     Adieu  again  ! 
it  seems  to  me    that   I    have  but  now  returned  from   the 
door   to  embrace   you.     God  bless   you  !    and  if   you   have 
an}'-  cares,  if  the  friendship  of  a  sister  be  of  necessity  to  you, 
come  back  to  find  me  again.     My  most  tender  affection  is 
with  you  and  follows  you  everywhere.     Saussure,  in  spite  of 
having  received  two  letters  from  me,  has  sent  two  letters  to 
Zurich  which  had  come  for  you.     You  will  find  them  there 
on  Friday,  and  on  Saturday  I  shall  still  write  to  you  there, 
and  then  afterwards  to  Frankfort.     I  hardly  hope  any  more 
for   peace    before   your   embarkation.     I    hope   for    nothing 
fortunate.     My  spirit  is  sad  like  one  of  the  days  of  your 
climate.    Adieu  ;  keep  some  esteem  and  affection  for  one  whose 
manners  differ  from  your  own,  but  whose  heart  is  like  to 
yours.     Give  me  some  charge  to  execute  for  you  either  here 
or  in  France.     Fight  time  and  see  that  our  friendship  one 
for  another  ever  live.     I  do  not  sign,  but  is  there  far  from 
your  family  any  other  woman  whose  affection  for  you  you 
could  confound  with  mine  ?     For  the  last  time,  adieu. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

CoppET,  le  27  juin. 

Ah,  my  dear  Lord,  il  y  a  unan  que  j'etais  avec 
vous,  un  an  que  j'etais  heureuse,  et  ma  vie  est 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  585 

foudroyee.  Jamais,  jamais  je  ne  reprendrai  a 
de  I'interet,  a  de  I'expcrience.  Je  rcmplirai  des 
devoirs,  j'clcverai  mcs  enfants,  mais  il  n'y  aura 
plus  sur  ccttc  terrc  uii  but  pour  moi,  il  n'y  en 
aura  plus.  Je  mennerai  mon  fils  a  Edimbourg 
I'annee  prochaine  ;  c'est  mon  projet,  mais  si  vous 
veniez  ici  je  ne  pourrais  pas  me  resoudre  a  n'y 
pas  etre ;  enfin  nous  combinerons  ce  double 
voyage,  il  faut  que  je  vous  revoye.  Je  n'ai  pas 
etc  satisfaite  de  votre  ami ;  il  me  semble  qu'il 
devait  beaucoup  a  la  pensee  du  dcsespoir  affreux 
que  j'ai  d'avoir  imagine  d'aller  a  Berlin;  mon 
[perc]  I'avait  approuve,  mais  est-ce  assez  pour 
supporter  le  reste  de  ma  vie  le  regret  d'y  avoir 
ete? 

My  dear  Lord,  je  n'ai  plus  dans  le  present  que 
la  contemplation  du  passe ;  je  ne  vis  que  pour  y 
songer.  Vous  aussi,  my  noble  friend,  etes-vous 
heureux  ?  II  y  a  tant  de  delicatesse,  tant  de  gene- 
rosite  dans  votre  conduite :  vous  rendent-elles 
heureux  ces  vertus  ?  Y  a-t-il  au  moins  quelques 
exemples  du  bonheur  de  la  vertu  pour  com- 
penser  les  terribles  tableaux  que  nous  avons 
sous  les  yeux  ?  Le  pauvre  Christin  sera  mis  en 
liberte,  dit-on,  le  14  juillet.  Adieu  encor  une  fois. 
Ma  sante  est  abimee ;  je  ne  puis  ecrire  deux 
pages  sans  tremblement.     Adieu. 

(Addressed)     Right  h''"'' 

Lord  John  Campbell. 

(Cover)  Suisse. 

To  r^*^*  honourable 

My  Lord  John  Campbell. 
Recommandee  aux  soins  de 
Mrs.  J.  Conrard  Shultess, 
banquiers, 

a  Zurich. 
VOL.  n.  17 


586     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

[Translation.] 

CoppET,  21th  June. 

Ah,  my  dear  Lord,  it  is  a  year  since  I  was  with  you,  a 
year  ago  that  I  was  happy,  and  my  hfe  is  blasted.  Never, 
never  again  will  I  take  an  interest  or  seek  experience.  I 
will  fulfil  my  duties,  I  will  bring  up  my  children,  but  there 
will  be  for  me  one  object  in  life,  one  object  only.  I  will 
take  my  son  to  Edinburgh  next  year  ;  that  is  my  plan,  but 
if  you  came  here,  I  should  be  here  too  :  Avell,  let  us  combine 
this  double  journey ;  I  must  see  you  again,  I  have  not 
been  very  satisfied  with  your  friend  ;  it  seems  to  me  that 
my  idea  of  going  to  Berlin  was  largely  due  to  the  frightful 
despair  I  was  in.  My  father  approved  the  scheme,  but  is 
it  enough  to  support  the  regret  of  having  been  there  during 
the  rest  of  my  life  ? 

My  dear  Lord,  at  present  all  that  remains  to  me  is  the 
contemplation  of  the  past ;  I  live  only  to  think  of  it.  You, 
too,  my  noble  friend,  are  you  happy  ?  There  is  so  much 
delicacy,  so  much  generosity  in  your  conduct ;  will  those 
virtues  make  you  happy  ?  Are  there  any  examples  of 
happiness  in  virtue  to  compensate  us  for  the  terrible  scenes 
before  our  eyes  ?  Poor  Christin  will  be  set  at  liberty  on 
the  14th  July,  so  they  say.  Adieu  once  more.  My  health  is 
ruined ;  I  cannot  write  two  pages  without  trembling.     Adieu. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

C.  le  samedi,  9  juillet. 

II  me  semble,  my  dear  Lord,  que  vous  pourriez 
nous  donner  le  bonheur  de  vous  posseder  encor 
un  ou  deux  mois  en  Suisse.  La  lettre  du  M'*  de 
Lome  a  Robertson  m'a  tout  a  fait  convaincue 
que  votre  pere  ne  le  desapprouveroit  pas,  et  je 
suis  moralement  sure  que  dans  I'intervalle  de 
ces  deux  mois  il  se  passera  quelques  evenements 
qui  rendront  le  passage  a  travers  la  France 
possible,  ou  le  passage  de  I'Allemagne  plus  sur, 
plus    facile    et  plus    prompt.     Voyez    les  petits 


''''•0/V,  MASS. 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  587 

cantons  et  revenez  a  Lausanne;  j'ai  une  maison 
toute  prete  pour  vous  a  la  campagne  pres  de 
Lausanne,  a  Ouchy,  ou  je  vous  ferai  un  arrange- 
ment plus  independant  et  tout  aussi  commode 
que  celui  que  vous  aviez  chez  M""  de  Saussure. 
Vous  dinerez  chez  vous,  et  en  bonne  house  keeper 
je  ferai  que  vous  ne  soyez  pas  voles,  et  vous 
souperez  tous  les  soirs  chez  moi,  car  j'aurai  une 
maison  a  quatre  pas  de  la  votrc.  M*"  de  Mont- 
morcnci  *  sera  ici  le  20  juillet,  et  Ic  P""  aoust  nous 
pourrions  ctre  ctablis  ensemble  a  Lausanne.  Vous 
aimerez  M*"  de  Montmorenci ;  il  est  noble,  simple 
et  bon.  Vous  I'aimerez,  car  tous  les  gens  que 
j'aime  ont  ensemble  quelque  rapport. 

Les  Call  valent  mieux  que  je  ne  croyois.  Sir 
vvilliam  m'a  parlc  de  son  pays  avec  ame.  Nous 
nous  ferons  des  ressources  de  promenade  et  d'oc- 
cupation  a  Lausanne,  et  j'espere  que  tous  les  jours 
plus  accoutume  a  moi,  mon  amitie  aura  pour  vous 
autant  de  charme  que  la  votre  en  a  pour  moi. 
Dans  tous  les  cas  d'ailleurs  vous  pourrez  repartir 
par  Basle,  ce  qui  est  un  chemin  plus  court,  plus 
sur  et  nouveau  pour  vous.  Alors  jevous  accom- 
pagnerois  jusqu'a  Basle,  parce  que  M""  de  Mont- 
morenci feroit  avec  un  grand  plaisir  du  voyage. 
Est-ce  un  reve  que  tous  ces  projets,  my  dear  Lord, 
ou  votre  colour  les  realisera-t-il  ?  J'ai  ccrit  deux 
lettres  a  Robertson,  Tunc  poste  rcstante  et  I'autre 
comme  celle-^i  a  I'aubcrge  de  TEpce.  Je  lui  dis 
que  les  lettres  que  vous  recevrez  a  Zurich  ont 
passe  par  Genes  ;  il  est  done  certain  que  vous  ne 
pouvez  savoir  I'effet  que  les  lettres  de  Lord  Lome 

*  Bulletin  of  Police,  August  2,  1811:  "The  Minister  has 
charged  tho  Prefect  of  Geneva  to  inform  M.  Mathieu  de  Mont- 
morenci that  he  cannot  return  to  Paris — that  lie  is  free  to  go  to 
Coppet,  or  elsewhere,  provided  he  remains  forty  leagues  away 
from  Paris." 


588     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

ont  pu  produire  sur  le  Due  d'Argyll.  Attendez 
done  de  le  savoir.  Une  fois  retourne  dans  I'isle 
vous  ne  pourrez  plus  en  sortir ;  il  est  bien  plus 
aise  de  prolonger.  Je  sais  que  mon  desir  est 
selfish,  mais  votre  sante,  mais  votre  bonheur  y 
gagneroient,  et  il  est  bien  permis  d'etre  selfish 
par  de  tels  interets.  J'ai  envoye  un  homme  a 
cheval  pour  savoir  s'il  n'y  avoit  point  de  lettres 
pour  vous  a  Geneve  :  il  n'y  en  avoit  point ;  mais 
toutes  les  lettres  de  Paris  a  Geneve  disent  qu'on 
espere  la  paix,  et  les  fonds  ont  monte  a  Paris 
d'apres  ...  *   esperance. 

En  verite  il  est  presque  deraisonnable  de  partir 
au  milieu  d'une  telle  incertitude,  et  j'ai  cette 
pressentiment  que  vous  arriveriez  plutot  en 
Angleterre  attendant  ici  qu'en  vous  enfongant 
dans  cette  AUemagne  et  vous  exposant  a  ce 
vilain  port  de  Tonningen.  Ecrivez  moi  votre 
decision  ;  avec  quelle  joye  je  recevrois  I'espoir 
d'une  longue  continuation  de  nos  relations 
ensemble.  Je  vous  ecrirai  mardi  prochain,  11 
juillet,  chez  M*"^  Conrard  et  Shultess  a  Zurich. 
En  revenant  de  Lucerne  vous  ferez  prendre 
cette  lettre  a  ce  que  j 'imagine.  Adieu,  my 
dear  Lord  ;  dites  moi  que  vous  m'aimez  et  que 
vous  croyez  que  je  vous  aime  directement. 

{Addressed)     a  My  Lord 

John  Campbell 

a  I'auberge  de  I'Epee 
a  Zurich. 

[Translation. '[ 

CoppET,  Saturday,  9th  July. 

It  seems  to  me,  my  dear  Lord,  that  we  may  have  the  good 
fortune  to  possess  you  yet  for  a  month  or  two  in  Switzer- 

*  MS.  torn. 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  589 

land.  The  letter  from  the  Marquis  of  Lome  to  Robertson 
lias  quite  convinced  me  that  your  father  would  not  disapprove 
of  this,  and  I  am  morally  certain  that  in  the  interval  of  these 
two  months  some  events  will  occur  to  make  the  passage  across 
France  possible,  or  the  passage  of  Germany  surer,  more  easy 
and  prompt.  Come  and  see  the  little  cantons  and  return  to 
Lausanne.  I  have  a  house  all  ready  for  you  in  the  country 
close  to  Lausanne,  at  Ouchy,  where  I  will  make  an  arrange- 
ment for  you,  more  independent  and  quite  as  convenient  as 
that  you  had  with  M.  de  Saussure.  You  will  dine  at  home, 
and  as  a  good  housekeeper  I  shall  see  that  you  do  not  get 
robbed,  and  you  will  have  supper  every  evening  with  me, 
because  I  shall  have  a  house  within  four  paces  of  your  own. 
M.  de  Montmorenci  will  be  here  on  the  20th  July,  and  on 
the  1st  August  we  could  be  established  together  at  Lausanne. 
You  will  love  M.  de  Montmorenci.  He  is  noble,  simple,  and 
good,  and  you  will  love  all  the  people  I  love,  for  they  all 
have  something  in  common. 

The  Calls  are  more  worthy  than  I  thought.  Sir  William 
spoke  to  me  of  his  country  with  exaltation.  We  wdll  have 
our  resources  in  walking,  and  occupation  in  Lausanne,  and  I 
hope  that  while  every  day  you  grow  more  accustomed  to  me, 
my  friendship  may  have  as  much  charm  for  you  as  yours  for 
me.  In  any  case  you  may  leave  again  by  Basle,  which  is  a 
safer  route,  shorter,  and  more  novel  for  you.  I  can  accom- 
pany you  as  far  as  Basle,  for  M.  de  Montmorenci  will  make 
the  journey  with  great  pleasure.  Is  this  a  dream,  all  these 
prospects,  my  dear  Lord,  or  will  your  heart  realize  them  ? 
I  have  written  two  letters  to  Robertson,  the  one  to  the 
Poste  Restante,  the  other  to  the  Auberge  de  I'Epee,  like  this 
one.  I  have  told  him  that  the  letters  you  will  receive  at 
Zurich  will  have  passed  by  Genoa.  It  is  certain  then  that 
you  cannot  know  the  effect  that  the  letters  of  the  Marquis 
of  Lome  have  had  on  the  Duke  of  Argyll.  Do  wait  then  to 
know  this.  Once  returned  to  the  island  you  will  not  be  able 
to  go  away  again.  It  is  much  easier  to  prolong  your  stay. 
I  know  that  my  desire  is  selfish,  but  your  health  and  your 
happiness  will  gain  by  it,  and  it  is  surely  permissible  to  be 
selfish  for  sucli  interests.  I  sent  otf  a  man  on  horseback  to 
know  if  there  wei-e  any  letters  for  you  at  Geneva,  but  tiiere 
were  none.  All  the  letters  from  Paris  to  Geneva  say  that 
people  hope  for  peace,  and  the  funds  have  risen  in  Paris  in 
accordance  with  this  hope. 

In  truth,  it  is  almost  madness  to  depart  in  the  midst  of 


590     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

so  much  uncertitude.  I  have  the  presentiment  you  will 
arrive  rather  the  sooner  in  England  if  you  wait  here,  than 
by  burying  yourself  in  that  Germany,  and  exposing  yourself 
to  the  discomforts  of  that  vile  port  of  Tonningen.  Write 
to  me  your  decision.  With  what  joy  would  I  receive  the 
hope  of  a  continuation  of  our  relations  together.  I  will 
write  to  you  Tuesday  next,  11th  July,  care  of  Messrs.  Conrad  & 
Schultess  at  Zurich.  You  will,  I  imagine,  receive  this  letter 
on  returning  from  Lucerne.  Adieu,  my  dear  Lord.  Tell  me 
you  love  me,  and  that  you  believe  I  love  you  "  directement." 


Madame  de  Sta'el  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

C.  le  12  juillet. 

II  me  semble,  my  dear  Lord,  que  je  vais  vous 

dire    cette    fois    trois    ou    quatre    nouvelles    qui 

doivent  influer  sur  vos  decisions.     D'abord,  on  a 

publie  a  Geneve  que  la  communication  pour  les 

lettres  etait  rouverte  par  Calais,  ce  qui  prouve 

que  les  negociations  continuent ;    secondement, 

voici  un  article  du  Publiciste  du  7  juillet  tres 

signifiant  aussi  pour  la  paix ;   troisiemement,  il 

y   a  une   negociation  commencee  entre  la  ville 

d'Hambourg  et  le  Consul  pour  permettre  que  le 

paquebot  d'Angleterre  aille  par  Hambourg,    et 

sans  cela  il  faudroit  traverser  le  Sund,  ce  qui  est 

un  voyage  bien  penible  et  dans  lequel  surtout 

il   est  bien  difficile  qu'une  femme  s'engage.     Si 

vous  voulez  ecrire  en  Ecosse  vous  aurez  a  present 

la  reponse  en  vingt  jours.     Cependant  ce  tems  la 

communication   avec  I'Angleterre  sera  rouverte, 

peut-etre  par  la  France,  surement  par  Hambourg. 

M""  de  Marcoff  reste  a  Paris  pour  les  negociations. 

Enfin  mon  pere,  qui  avait  toujours  peur  que  vous 

ne   retardassiez   votre   depart   lorsque   la  Suisse 

ne  paraissoit  pas  sure,  mon  pere  eut  d'avis  que 

dans  I'incertitude  actuelle  de  toutes  choses  vous 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  591 

avez  tort  de  partir,  et  il  n'y  a  pas  un  Anglois  en 
Suisse  a  present  qui  ne  soit  de  cette  opinion. 
Reflechissez,  je  vous  en  prie,  a  tout  ce  que  je  vous 
mande  la.  Ce  n'est  point  le  desir  que  j'ai  de 
vous  revoir,  desir  qui  s'augmente  chaque  jour,  ce 
n'est  point  lui  seul  qui  m'inspire ;  je  crois  que  la 
raison  vous  parleroit  ainsi,  et  Saussure,  I'imposs- 
ible  Saussure,  dit,  Ma  joiy  je  crois  qu^d  present  Us 
doivent  rester.  De  quel  autre  interest  puis-je 
vous  parler  que  de  celui-la  ?  II  me  semble  que  je 
sens  encor  plus  vivement  depuis  votre  depart 
quelle  difference  il  y  a  pour  mon  esprit  et  mon 
coeur  entre  votre  societe  et  toutes  les  autres. 
Cependant  on  dit  dans  la  Suisse  que  vous  m'avez 
dit  une  fois  que  vous  vous  ennuyiez  partout  et 
avec  tout  le  monde.  J'ai  repondu  que  si  cela  etoit 
vrai  il  I'etoit  egalement  que  je  ne  m'etois  jamais 
ennuyee  un  moment  avec  vous.  Avez  vous  lu  le 
discours  du  Prefet  du  Pas  de  Calais  au  l*^""  Consul  ? 
II  lui  dit,  Dieu,  apres  avoir  cree  Bonaparte,  se 
reposa.  Ce  sont  les  propres  termes  de  la  Bible 
en  racontant  la  creation  du  monde. 

Je  regrette  de  ne  vous  avoir  pas  donne  mon  fils 
pour  le  mener  a  Edimbourg ;  je  I'aurais  tire  de 
toutes  ces  flatteries  franyoises,  et  je  ne  me  serois 
pas  crue  separee  de  vous  quand  un  lien  si  cher 
nous  auroit  encor  reunis.  Si  vous  revenez  il  me 
semble  que,  d'une  maniere  ou  d'une  autre,  nous 
ne  serons  plus  aussi  complettement  separes. 
Les  Call  viennent  de  nous  quitter;  je  les  aime 
assez.  Sir  vvilliam  est  un  peu  sauvage,  et  c'est 
amusant  a  voir  dans  un  bon  chateau  bicn 
civilise.  Du  matin  au  soir  il  faisoit  retentir  la 
maison  de  chants  et  dc  danses,  et  j'aimois  ce 
mouvement  ou  mon  ame  ne  prenoit  aucune  part. 
Au  milieu  de  tout  cela  il  est  naturel  et  bon,  et 
quand  on  se  sent  de  la  tristesse  on  aime  a  trouver 


592     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

cette  disposition  du  coeur  qui  vous  promettroit 
de  la  pitie  si  vous  y  aviez  recours.  II  est  etonne  de 
tout,  comme  s'il  se  reveilloit  a  22  ans  au  milieu 
de  la  vie.  II  m'a  rappelle  le  huron  de  Voltaire. 
Je  sais  que  vous  aimez  Voltaire,  parce  que  votre 
esprit  est  gai  et  que  vos  idees  sont  analogues 
aux  siennes,  quoique  vos  sentiments  lui  soient 
bien  superieurs. 

Si  vous  revenez  M""  MacCuUoch  partira,  et 
c'est  en  verite  un  grand  service  que  vous  nous 
rendrez  a  tons  les  deux,  car  il  a  quelque 
chose  d'extraordinaire  qui  m'effraye.  Je  vous 
ai  dit  une  fois  que  les  hommes  aimoient 
d'autant  plus  qu'ils  n'etoient  pas  aimes :  je 
crois  cette  triste  reflexion  vraie ;  I'amour  des 
hommes  est  plein  d'ingratitude.  J'espere  qu'il 
n'en  sera  pas  ainsi  de  I'amitie,  my  dear  Lord.  Si 
vous  repondiez  mal  a  la  mienne  vous  me  causeriez 
une  vive  et  longue  peine.  Je  veux  que  votre 
bonte  pour  tout  le  monde  soit  de  la  sensibilite 
pour  moi,  car  vous  ne  pouvez  me  faire  du  bien 
ou  du  mal  que  par  les  delicatesses  du  cceur. 

Voila  la  troisieme  lettre  que  je  vous  ecris  en 
comptant  celle  que  Robertson  vous  a  portee ;  il 
faudra  bientot  que  je  vous  prie  de  me  repondre, 
comme  a  M''  Lewis,  en  signant  votre  nom. 
Repondez  moi  en  disant,  Je  reviens.  Soy ez  a  Copet 
le  25  juillet.  Vous  aurez  bien  eu  le  tems  de  voir 
la  Suisse,  et  nous  partirons  de  la  tous  ensemble, 
M""  de  Montmorenci  compris,  pour  aller  passer  le 
mois  d'aoust  a  Lausanne  ou  dans  les  montagnes 
des  environs.  Je  suis  tentee  de  vous  dire  a 
Virlandoise,  si  vous  ne  recevez  pas  cette  lettre 
mandez  le  moi.  J'ecrirai  demain  a  Robertson 
a  la  meme  adresse  que  cette  lettre-ci  apres  le 
courier  de  France,  a  moins  que  je  ne  recoive  une 
lettre  de  lui  demain  qui  m'indique  une  autre 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  598 

adresse.     Adieu  encor,  my  dear  Lord  ;  revenez, 
revenez,  adieu. 

[Translation.] 

CoppET,  12th  July. 

It  strikes  me,  my  dear  Lord,  that  I  have  two  or  three  pieces 
of  news  tliat  may  alter  your  decisions.  1st,  it  is  announced 
at  Geneva  that  postal  communication  has  been  reopened 
vid  Calais,  which  proves  tliat  negotiations  are  still  in  progress. 
2ndly,  here  is  an  article  from  the  Publiciste  of  7th  July, 
very  significant  also  of  peace.  3rdly,  negotiations  have 
been  opened  between  the  city  of  Hambourg  and  the  Consul, 
to  permit  the  English  mail-boat  to  go  by  Hambourg,  as 
otherwise  it  would  have  to  cross  the  iSound,  which  is  a  very 
disagreeable  journey,  and  almost  impossible  for  a  woman. 
If  you  have  to  write  to  Scotland  you  will  at  present  get  an 
answer  in  twenty  days.  By  that  time  communication  with 
England  will  certainly  be  opened,  perhaj)s  by  France, 
certainly  by  Hambourg.  M''  de  Marcoff  remains  in  Paris  for 
the  negotiations.  My  father,  wlio  always  feared  you  would 
put  off  your  departure  while  the  state  of  Switzerland  was 
so  uncertain,  is  now  of  opinion  that  you  are  unwise  to  leave, 
and  every  Englishman  in  Switzerland  thinks  the  same.  I 
beg  of  you  to  reflect  on  what  I  am  telling  you.  It  is  not  alono 
my  desire  to  see  you  again,  a  desire  which  increases  every 
day,  it  is  not  only  that  which  inspires  me,  but  I  think  Reason 
should  tell  you  so,  and  Saussure,  the  impossible  Saussure, 
says,  Faith,  I  think  they  ought  to  stay  here  at  present. 
From  what  other  motive  can  I  speak  of  him  ?  I  seem  to 
feel  more  than  ever  since  you  left  the  difference,  both  in  my 
intellect  and  heart,  of  your  society  to  any  one  else's,  and  yet 
it  is  said  in  Switzerland  that  you  once  said  to  me  that  you 
were  bored  everywhere  and  with  everybody,  to  which  I 
answered  that  if  that  were  so  it  was  equally  true  that  I  had 
never  felt  bored  for  an  instant  in  your  company.  Have  you 
read  the  speech  of  the  Prefect  of  the  Pas-de -Calais  to  tho 
First  Consul  ?  He  says  that  God,  after  creating  Bonaparte, 
RESTED.  They  are  the  exact  terms  of  the  Bible  on  the 
creation  of  the  universe. 

I  regret  not  having  confided  my  son  to  you  to  take  to 
Edinburgh  ;  it  would  have  removed  him  from  French  flattery, 
and  I  should  not  have  felt  so  divided  from  you  while  such  a 
tender  tie  united  us.     If  you  return,  I  feel  that,  one  way 


594     INTIMATE    SOCIP^TY    LETTERS 

and  another,  we  shall  not  be  so  completely  separated.  The 
Calls  have  just  left  us  ;  I  like  them  rather.  Sir  William  is 
a  little  wild,  and  it  is  amusing  in  a  good  civilized  house  to 
see  him  making  the  place  re-echo  with  songs  and  dances,  and 
I  liked  the  movement  even  when  my  soul  could  take  no  part 
in  it  all ;  it  is  natural  and  good,  and  when  one  feels  sad  one 
is  glad  to  find  that  disposition  of  the  heart  which  would 
prompt  one  to  feel  pity.  He  is  surprised  at  everything,  as 
though  he  had  awaked  at  22  years  of  age  in  the  middle  of 
life.  He  reminded  me  of  the  Huron  of  Voltaire.  I  know 
you  like  Voltaire,  for  you  have  a  gay  disposition,  and  you 
have  similar  ideas,  though  your  sentiments  are  far  superior 
to  his.  If  you  come  back  Mr.  McCulloch  will  leave,  and  in 
truth  it  would  be  rendering  a  great  service  to  us  both,  for 
there  is  something  about  him  which  frightens  me.  I  told 
you  once  that  men  love  all  the  more  when  they  are  not 
loved  :  I  think  this  is  true  ;  man's  love  is  full  of  ingratitude. 
I  trust  it  will  not  be  so  with  friendship,  my  dear  Lord.  If 
you  did  not  respond  to  mine,  you  would  cause  me  a  sharp 
and  prolonged  iiaiii-  I  wish  that  your  kindness  to  all  the 
world  should  be  sensibility  to  me,  for  you  can  only  give  me 
pleasure  or  pain  by  the  heart. 

This  is  the  third  letter  I  have  written  you,  counting  the  one 
Mr.  Robertson  took  to  you.  I  shall  soon  have  to  ask  you  to 
answer  me,  like  Mr.  Lewis,  signing  your  name.  Answer  me 
saying,  I  am  coming  to  Coppet.  Be  at  Coppet  on  the  25th 
July  ;  you  will  have  had  ample  time  to  see  Switzerland,  and 
we  shall  all  go  together,  M''  de  Montmorenci  included,  to  spend 
the  month  of  August  at  Lausanne,  or  in  the  mountains  in  the 
neighbourhood.  I  am  tempted  to  say,  like  an  Irishman, 
if  you  do  not  receive  this  letter  let  me  know.  I  shall  write 
to-morrow  to  Robertson  at  the  same  address  as  this  unless 
I  receive  a  letter  from  him  to-morrow  notifying  change  of 
address.     Adieu  again,  my  dear  Lord  ;  return,  return,  adieu. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Coppet,  22  juillet. 

Je  n'aurois  pas  conseille  a  Robertson,  je  vous 
I'atteste,  my  dear  Lord,  de  rester  en  Suisse,  mais 
j'aurois  voulu  qu'il  eut  le  besoin  de  venir  passer 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  595 

quatre  jours  avec  moi  apres  avoir  re9u  un 
courier  de  moi  qui  lui  disoit.  Ce  qui  est  vrai, 
c'est  que  dans  quelque  ville  de  France  qu'on 
I'eut  conduit  je  I'y  aurois  suivi.  S'il  vous  avoit 
quitte,  s'il  avoit  renonce  a  son  pays,  je  Ten 
aurois  moins  ainie  ;  mais  comme  il  n'y  a  pas  un 
seul  Anglois  arrete  en  Suisse,  comme  ils  y  sont 
aussi  surs  que  jamais,  et  que  votre  course  a 
Fribourg  a  ete  la  seule  cause  de  Tevenement  de 
Baden,  je  trouvois  que  Robertson  pouvoit  re- 
venir  ici  par  quatre  jours,  et  daignez  en  croire 
mon  attachement  pour  vous,  je  ne  I'aurois  pas 
retenu  plus  long  terns.  Le  parti  qu'il  a  pris 
certainement  n'altere  pas  mon  estime  pour  lui, 
mais  diminue  beaucoup  I'idee  que  je  m'etois 
faite  de  son  affection  pour  moi,  et  par  conse- 
quent ma  confiance  dans  ses  plans  futurs  pour 
me  revoir.  Une  telle  pensee  est  douloureuse,  car 
j'ai  pris  pour  Robertson  une  vive  et  profonde 
amitie,  et  tout  ce  qu'il  m'avoit  montre  de  senti- 
ment m'avoit  presque  persuadee  qu'un  homme 
pouvoit  etre  capable  d'une  sensibilite  telle  que 
je  la  desire,  telle  que  je  la  veux  pour  donner 
celle  que  je  puis  eprouver.  Heureusement,  si 
toute  fois  je  puis  prononcer  ce  mot  dans  un 
moment  d'amere  douleur,  heureusement  qu'une 
idee  confuse  que  Robertson  etoit  mobile  et  qu'il 
s'exageroit  lui-mcme  ses  sentiments  pour  moi, 
a  retenu  mon  cocur  que  j'etois  prete  a  lier  a  lui 
pour  toujours,  et  que  je  me  suis  def endue  des 
engagements  irreparables,  il  en  reste  assez  pour 
etre  triste  et  souffrante,  peut-ctre  jusques  a  la 
fin  des  jours  de  jeunesse  que  la  peine  abrege  si 
vite. 

Vous  voyez  avec  quelle  franchise  je  vous 
parle,  my  dear  Lord.  J'ai  une  telle  estime  pour 
votre  caractere,  j'ai  si  profondement  senti  que 


596     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

si  vous  m'aviez  aime  je  vous  aurois  aime,  que  je 
vous  montre  sans  aucune  crainte  ce  que  toute 
autre  femme  caclieroit,  et  j'ose  compter  que  le 
M'**  de  Lome  lui-meme  ne  verra  jamais  une 
seule  de  mes  lettres  a  vous,  ne  saura  jamais 
par  vous  que  j'ai  regrette  si  cruellement  d'etre 
separee  d'un  homme  que  les  circonstances 
eloignaient  autant  de  moi. 

Encor    un    dernier  plan  pour  vous  revoir,   il 
me    semble,    celui-la,     sans    aucun    genre    d'in- 
convenient.    J'ai    divers   motifs    ou  divers  pre- 
textes    pour  aller  a  Stutgard.     Matthieu  desire 
que    nous    fassions    le    tour    de    la   Suisse  pour 
rentrer  en   France  par  Basle.     Stutgard  est  tres 
pres  de  la  Suisse,  et  il  y  a  la  un  homme  que 
j'ai  promis  d'aller  voir  pour  lui  confier  mon  fils 
Albert  a  cause  de  I'allemand.     II  n'y  a  done  pas 
pour  moi   le   moindre   inconvenient   a   passer   8 
jours  a  Stutgard,  et  si  vous  n'allez  pas  a  Vienne 
je  ne  vois  pas  pourquoi  vous  ne  me  donneriez 
pas  ces  8  jours  dans  une  ville  agreable  et  assez 
curieuse  a  ce  qu'on  dit.     Si  vous  me  repondez 
que  vous  y  allez,  j'y  serai  en  comptant  le  nombre 
de    jours    qu'il    faut    pour    partir    apres    votre 
lettre  reyue.     Mon  pere  approuve  ce  plan,  et  il 
est  possible  que  je  vous  laisse  Auguste  si  vous 
allez  directement  en  Ecosse  et  que  vous  vouliez 
lui  donner  la  place  de  M"^  de  la  Chaise  ;  c'est  une 
idee    du    moins  qui    me  revient  souvent.     J'ai 
droit  k  etre  crue,  my  dear  Lord,  quand  je  vous 
exprime  des  sentiments  que  tout  autre  cache- 
roit,  quand  je  les  exprime  dans  un  moment  ou 
I'amour-propre    des    femmes    communes    seroit 
blesse.    Je  vous  dis  done  que  vous  revoir  me  fera 
autant  de  plaisir  que  de  revoir  Robertson.    Vous 
avez  du  recevoir  une  lettre  de  moi  le  courier 
dernier  avec  une  lettre  d'Angleterre ;  je  croyois 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  597 

alors  que  R.  alloit  revenir,  ct  jepleurois  en  vous 
ecrivant  du  regret  de  votre  depart.  Consentez 
done  a  me  donner  ecs  liiiit  jonrs  a  Stutgard ; 
peut-ctre  vous  y  porterai-je  des  nouvcUes  de 
paix.     Adieu. 

P.S. — Si  ma  Icttre  ne  vous  atteint  pas  a  Ulm 
I  will  wait  a  month  for  your  decision. 

Mon  pere,  qui  est  la  bonte  meme  pour  moi 
dans  tout  ceei  et  que  ma  peine  touche,  me  fait 
rouvrir  ma  lettre  a  vous  pour  vous  dire  que  le 
meilleur  endroit  pour  nous  rcunir  quinze  jours 
au  lieu  de  huit,  ce  seroit  Constance,  qui  est  a 
Textremite  de  la  Suisse,  appartient  a  I'Empereur, 
et  est  sur  Ic  bord  d'un  lac  plus  beau  que  celui  de 
Geneve.  Je  crois  que  tous  les  Anglois  qui  pour- 
ront  s'echapper  d'ici  iront  la.  Enfin  deeidez. 
Pourvu  qu'avant  quinze  jours,  un  mois  ou  six 
semaines  j'aye  passe  quelques  jours  avec  vous, 
je  suis  soulagee  et  le  lieu  du  rendez-vous  m'est 
presque  egal.  Puisque  vous  aviez  I'idee  d'aller 
a  Vienne,  pourquoi  ne  passeriez  vous  pas  quelquc 
terns  en  Allemagne  ?  II  n'y  aura  rien  du  tout  de 
militaire  avant  le  mois  de  9'''"'",  ct  en  restant  encor 
quelques  semaines  sur  le  Continent  vous  vous 
donnez  la  chance  de  la  paix.  Ah  que  je  serai 
hcureuse  si  je  vous  persuade,  si  je  revois  dans 
une  auberge  encor  les  tetes  blonde  et  noire 
m'accueillant  a  la  fenetre !  Vous  pourriez  aller 
a  Munich,  et  revenir  ensuite  a  Stutgard  ou  a 
Constance.  Ah,  mon  Dieu,  que  je  suis  longue  dans 
mes  lettres,  developpce  ennuyeuse,  mais  j'ai  tant 
d'envie  de  rcussir  que  je  crains  toujours  d'avoir 
oublie  une  raison  qui  seroit  bonne.  Adieu  encor, 
my  dear  Lord :  peut-ctre  pas  adieu  pour  long- 
tems  ;  il  me  semble  qu'il  n'y  a  pas  d'inconvenients 
a  ce  que  je  propose. 


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J'ecrirai  a  R.  le  l^""  courier,  toujours  a  Ulm. 

{Cover)     fr.  Schaffouse.  Allemagne. 

a  My  Lord 

John  Campbell 
a  Ulm — -poste 

restante. 

[Translation.] 

CoppET,  22nd  July. 

I  would  not  have  advised  Robertson,  I  assure  you,  my 
dear  Lord,  to  remain  in  Switzerland,  but  I  wish  he  had  felt 
the  need  of  passing  four  days  with  me  after  having  received 
a  letter  from  me  asking  him.  To  tell  the  truth,  I  would 
have  followed  him  no  matter  to  what  town  in  France  they 
had  conducted  him.  If  he  had  left  you,  if  he  had  renounced 
his  country,  I  should  have  liked  him  less  ;  but  as  there  has  not 
been  a  single  Englishman  arrested  in  Switzerland,  as  they 
are  as  safe  there  as  ever,  and  as  your  journey  to  Fribourg 
was  the  sole  cause  of  the  Baden  episode,  I  thought  that 
Robertson  might  have  returned  here  for  four  days,  and  do 
believe  that  out  of  affection  for  you  I  would  not  have  let  him 
stay  longer.  The  course  he  his  adopted  certainly  does 
not  affect  my  esteem  for  him,  but  much  diminishes  the 
idea  I  had  of  his  affection  for  me  and  consequently  in  his 
projects  for  seeing  me  again.  Such  a  thought  is  painful, 
as  I  had  a  lively  and  profound  friendship  for  Robertson, 
and  what  I  saw  of  his  feelings  had  nearly  persuaded  me  that 
a  man  may  be  capable  of  the  sensibility  that  I  desire,  such 
as  I  want  before  giving  what  I  can  myself  experience.  Hap- 
pily, if  I  can  use  the  word  in  a  moment  of  bitter  anguish — 
happily  a  vague  suspicion  that  Robertson  was  fickle  and  over- 
estimated his  sentiments  for  me  restrained  my  heart,  which 
was  about  to  give  itself  to  him  for  ever,  and  I  kept  free  of 
an  irrevocable  engagement ;  but  enough  remains  to  make 
me  sad  and  suffering  perhaps  to  the  end  of  the  days  of  my 
youth,  which  pain  so  quickly  shortens. 

You  see,  my  Lord,  with  what  candour  I  speak  to  you. 
I  have  such  an  esteem  for  your  character,  I  feel  so  profoundly 
that  if  you  had  loved  me  I  should  have  loved  you,  that  with- 
out any  restraint  I  show  you  what  any  other  woman  would 
hide,  and  I  count  on  you  that  not  even  the  Marquis  of  Lome 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  599 

will  ever  see  one  of  my  letters  to  you,  will  never  know  through 
you  how  much  grief  I  felt  at  being  separated  from  a  man 
whom  circumstances  removed  from  me. 

Yet  another  plan  to  see  you,  this  time,  I  think,  without 
any  sort  of  inconvenience.  I  have  various  reasons  or  pre- 
texts for  going  to  Stuttgart.  Mathieu  wants  us  to  make 
a  tour  of  Switzerland,  re-entering  France  at  Basle.  Stutt- 
gart is  very  near  Switzerland,  and  I  have  promised  to  see 
a  man  there  about  my  son  Albert,  who  is  to  learn  German. 
There  would  therefore  be  no  objection  whatever  to  my  passing 
a  week  at  Stuttgart ;  and  if  j'ou  do  not  go  to  Vienna,  I  don't 
see  Avhy  you  should  not  sj^are  me  a  week  in  a  toAvn  pleasant 
and  interesting  enough,  1  am  told.  If  you  tell  me  that 
you  are  going  there,  I  shall  be  counting  the  number  of  days 
before  I  shall  sec  you.  My  father  approves  of  the  plan,  and 
it  is  possible  that  I  shall  leave  Auguste  with  you  if  you  go 
directly  to  Scotland  and  if  you  will  give  him  the  place  of 
I\Ille.  de  la  Chaise.  It  is  an  idea  at  least  that  often  occurs 
to  me.  I  have  the  right  to  be  believed,  my  dear  Lord,  when 
I  express  sentiments  Avhich  every  one  else  would  conceal, 
when  I  express  them  at  a  moment  Avhen  the  amour  propre 
of  ordinary  women  would  be  wounded.  I  tell  you  then 
that  to  see  you  again  Avill  give  me  as  much  pleasure  as  seeing 
Robertson.  You  must  have  received  a  letter  from  me  by 
the  last  mail  with  a  letter  from  England  ;  I  believed  then 
that  R.  would  return,  and  I  wept  while  writing  to  you  in 
sorrow  at  your  departure.  Consent  then  to  give  me  that 
week  at  Stuttgart — perhaps  I  shall  brmg  you  news  of  peace. 
Adieu. 

P.S. — Should  my  letter  not  catch  you  at  Ulm  I  will  wait  a 
month  for  your  decision. 

My  father,  who  is  kindness  itself  for  me  in  all  this  and 
who  is  moved  by  my  sorrow,  has  made  me  open  my  letter 
to  you  to  tell  you  that  the  best  place  to  meet  during  a  fort- 
night instead  of  a  week  would  be  Constanz,  which  is  at 
the  far  end  of  Switzerland,  belongs  to  the  Emperor,  and  is 
on  the  >hores  of  a  lake  more  beautiful  than  that  of  Geneva. 
I  fancy  that  all  the  English  mIio  escape  Mill  go  there.  Make 
up  your  mind.  Provided  hat  before  a  fortnight  has  passed, 
a  month,  or  six  weeks,  I  .-hall  have  spent  a  few  days  with 
you,  I  shall  be  consoled,  and  the  site  of  the  rendezvous  is 
indifferent  to  me.  Since  you  had  the  idea  of  going  to  Vienna, 
why  did  you  not  spend  some  t  ime  in  Germany  ?     There  will 


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be  no  military  operations  before  the  month  of  November, 
and  by  remaining  a  few  weeks  longer  on  the  Continent,  you 
give  yourself  a  chance  of  peace.  How  happy  I  should  be 
if  I  can  persuade  you,  if  I  sec  once  more  at  my  inn  the  fair 
head  and  the  black  welcoming  me  at  the  window  !  You 
could  go  to  Munich,  and  return  thence  to  Stuttgart  or  to 
Constanz.  Good  Heavens,  how  long  and  tedious  I  have 
become  in  my  letters,  but  I  am  so  anxious  to  succeed  that 
I  always  fear  that  I  have  forgotten  some  good  reason.  Fare- 
well again,  my  dear  Lord  :  perhaps  not  farewell  for  long  ; 
I  don't  think  there  can  be  any  objections  to  what  I  propose. 
I  will  write  to  R.  by  the  first  mail,  always  to  Ulm. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Les  Call  vont,  je  crois,  s'echapper, 
et  me  donneront  rendez-vous  dans 
la  ville  d'Allemagne  que  je  leur 
designerai  si  j'y  vais. 

C.  le  23  juillet. 

J'ai  iin  peu  de  honte,  my  dear  Lord,  de  la 
derniere  lettre  que  je  vous  ai  ecrite,  et  je  vous 
prie  de  la  bruler.  L'agitation  que  m.'avait  donne 
I'evenement  de  Baden,  et  la  subite  separation 
qui  I'a  suivi,  m'eut  fait  un  tel  mal  qu'il  n'y  a 
que  depuis  quelques  heures  qu'a  I'aide  du 
laudanum  j'ai  cesse  d'avoir  une  fievre  ardente. 
Pardonnez  done,  et  faites  mieux,  oubliez  et  brulez 
une  lettre  a  laquelle  je  ne  puis  penser  sans 
beaucoup  d'embarras,  car  je  ne  me  souviens 
meme  plus  de  ce  qu'elle  contenoit.  Ce  que  je  sais 
c'est  que  j'ai  du  sans  doute  exprimer  un  regret 
affreux  de  la  perte  de  votre  societe  et  de  celle 
de  R.,  car  il  y  a  dans  votre  caractere  et  dans 
votre  esprit  a  tons  les  deux  un  genre  de  charme 
qui  m'a  fait  eprouver  un  bonheur  parfait,  et  je 
ne  sais  pas  ce  qu'on  ne  ferait  pas  pour  rejoindre 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  601 

ceux  qui  ont  le  talent  magique  de  vous  rendre 
heureux. 

J'etais  bien  convaincue  avant  de  vous  connaitre 
qu'il  etait  possible  de  me  plaire,  de  m'interesscr, 
mais  non  pas  de  me  rendre  la  vie  tout  a  fait 
douce.  Mon  ame  naturellement  agitee  n'a  trouve 
du  calme  qu'aupres  de  vous.  Dix  ans  de  revolu- 
tion m'avaient  fait  mepriser  les  hommes,  et  vous 
m'avez  rendu  ce  que  j'eprouvai  a  vingt  ans, 
I'estime  et  la  confiance.  Pardonnez  moi  done 
si  j'ai  senti  je  ne  sais  quel  dechirement  inex- 
primable  quand  le  dernier  lien  de  I'espoir  s'est 
brise.  II  m'en  reste  un  cependant  encor ;  c'est 
que  vous  acceptiez  la  proposition  que  je  vous 
ai  faite  d'un  rendez-vous  en  Allemagne  avant 
votre  fatale  embarcation.  Je  puis  etre  dans 
quinze  jours  a  Stutgard  ou  dans  six  semaines  a 
Francf ort.  Si  j  e  vais  dans  quinze  j ours  a  Stutgard, 
c'est  en  faisant  le  tour  de  la  Suisse  avee  Matthieu, 
et  prenant  la  des  renseignements  qui  me  sont 
necessaires  sur  une  pension  ou  je  pourrais  mettre 
Albert.  Si  je  vais  dans  six  semaines  a  Francf  ort, 
ce  serait  en  rentrant  en  France  par  Strasbourg,  et 
peut-etre  vous  remettrais-je  la  Auguste,  qui  meurt 
d'envie  d'etre  mis  en  pension  a  Edimbourg. 
Vous  avez  produit  sur  mes  enfants,  tons  les  deux, 
un  effet  qui  me  prouve  combien  mes  sentiments 
sont  naturels  ;  ils  mc  font  pleurer  sans  cesse  par 
Icurs  allusions  a  vous,  par  leurs  regrets.  Ah,  je  le 
crois,  les  vrais  qualites  du  coeur  sont  celles  que 
des  etres  innocents  et  simples  ont  senti  si  pro- 
fondement.  Ne  dites  pas  que  ce  n'est  rien  que 
se  revoir  huit  jours.  Nous  ferons  la  des  projets 
pour  I'annee  suivante,  et  si  je  vous  donne  mon 
fils,  n'est-il  pas  sur  que  j'irai  en  Ecosse  le  printems 
prochain  ?  Enfin,  my  dear  Lord,  dans  cette  vie 
ou  le  bonheur  ne  compte  que  par  jours  j'irais  a 

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602     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

cinq  cent  lieux  pour  huit  jours  ;  leur  attente, 
leur  souvenir  font  le  lot  d'une  destince. 

Ce  que  je  veux  seulement  c'est  ne  pas  vous 
deranger  ;  mais  si  ma  lettre  vous  est  parvenue  a 
Ulm,  Stutgard  est  la  route  pour  aller  a  Francfort, 
et  si  vous  avez  ete  a  Munich  ou  mcme  a  Vienna 
il  me  semble  que,  si  vous  retournez  en  Angleterre, 
Francfort  est  encor  votre  route,  et  que  nous 
pouvons  nous  y  retrouver  dans  six  semaines. 
Par  les  nouvelles  d'aujourd'hui  il  est  positif  que 
la  Prusse  ne  sera  point  en  guerre  avec  TAngleterre, 
et  Ton  pent  s'embarquer  a  Embden  sur  un 
batiment  prussien ;  or  Francfort  est  la  route 
d'Embden.  II  y  a  toujours  des  negociations, 
mais  je  ne  vois  point  qu'elles  se  hatent,  et  ce 
qui  va  vite  ce  sont  les  preparatifs  de  descente  en 
France  ;  cependant  personne  n'y  croit  avant  le 
mois  de  mars. 

Je  vous  ai  envoy6  une  lettre  d' Angleterre  a 
Ulm,  et  je  continuerai  a  vous  les  adresser  la 
poste  restante  jusques  a  ce  que  j'aye  une  lettre 
de  vous  qui  change  I'adresse.  J'ecris  de  meme 
a  Robertson.  My  dear  Lord,  quand  je  regois 
des  lettres  ou  des  compliments,  savez  vous  quel 
est  mon  premier  mouvement  ?  L'espoir  que  je 
vaux  assez  pour  que  ma  parfaite  amiti6  pour 
vous  soit  de  quelque  chose  dans  le  bonheur  de 
votre  vie  ;  et  je  suis  tent6e,  comme  Don  Quichotte, 
d'obliger  tons  ceux  qui  me  louent  a  vous  aller 
dire  que  je  vous  aime  et  que  vous  devez  m'aimer. 
Matthieu  arrive  apres  demain,  et  m'apportera 
beaucoup  de  nouvelles;  je  vous  les  ecrirai,  mais 
prenez  garde,  je  vous  prie,  que  mes  lettres  ne 
se  perdent  pas — il  y  a  partout  des  agents 
frangais.  Je  vous  en  prie,  souvent  quelques 
lignes  a  la  fin  de  votre  journal ;  mettez  sur  un 
petit  papier  je  vous  aime^  je  me  porte  hien,  et 


MADAME    DE    STAfiL  603 

s'il  sc  pent  je  voiis  attends  Id  tel  jour.  Voila  des 
lignes  qui  fcront  plus  de  bien  que  toute  la 
puissance  consulaire  n'en  pourra  jamais  produire. 
N'est-il  pas  doux  de  pcnser  qu'au  milieu  de 
I'empire  du  pouvoir  I'empire  de  I'affection 
reste,  et  que  I'amitic  dispose  encor  du  bonheur  ? 
Je  re^ois  a  I'instant  une  lettre  de  vous,  bonne, 
touchante,  comme  tout  ce  qui  vient  de  vous. 
Je  suis  bien  aise  a  present  que  Robertson  vous 
ait  rejoint,  car  les  Anglais  sont  en  fuite  de 
Lausanne.  Ah,  quelle  tyrannic  !  Si  cette  lettre 
vous  parvient  a  tcms  pour  nous  rejoindre  en 
Allemagne,  ah,  my  dear  Lord,  attendez  moi.  Je 
vous  aime  tous  les  jours  plus.  II  y  a  des  trcsors 
dans  votre  ame  que  je  vous  decouvrirai  a  vous- 
meme,  et  vous  redeviendrez  heureux  en  sentant 
mieux  tout  ce  que  vous  valez.  Ecrivez  moi, 
ecrivez  moi — jamais  vous  n'aurez  cause  un  plus 
doux  sentiment  a  personne. 


[Translation.] 

The  Calls  are,  I  think,  about  to  escape, 
and  will  give  me  a  meeting  in  a  German 
town  I  shall  mention  to  them  if  I  go. 

CopPET,  23rd  July. 

I  have  some  remorse,  my  dear  Lord,  regarding  the  last 
letter  I  wrote  you,  and  I  beg  you  to  burn  it.  The  agitation 
which  the  Baden  event  caused  me,  and  the  sudden  separation 
which  followed  it,  brought  on  such  an  illness  that  it  is  only 
a  few  hours  ago,  with  the  aid  of  laudanum,  that  I  ceased  to 
have  a  burning  fever.  Pardon  me  therefore,  and  do  better — 
forget  and  burn  the  letter,  which  I  cannot  think  of  without 
much  embarrassment,  because  1  do  not  even  remember  what 
it  contained.  All  that  I  know  is  that  1  no  doubt  expressed 
a  terrible  sorrow  at  your  departure  and  that  of  R.,  because 
there  is  that  in  your  character  and  in  the  spirit  of  both  of 
you  a  kind  of  charm  which  makes  me  feel  a  perfect  happiness, 


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and  I  do  not  know  what  one  would  not  do  to  rejoin  those 
who  have  the  magic  talent  of  making  one  feel  happy. 

I  was  assured  before  I  knew  you  that  it  was  possible  to 
please  me  and  interest  me,  but  I  did  not  know  that  my  life 
could  be  made  absolutely  happy.  My  mind,  being  by  nature 
easily  moved,  has  only  found  calm  with  you.  Ten  years 
of  revolution  had  made  me  contemptuous  of  men,  and  you 
have  restored  that  which  I  felt  when  I  was  twenty  years 
old,  esteem  and  confidence.  Pardon  me  then  if  I  feel  an 
indescribable  wrench  when  the  last  tie  of  hope  is  broken. 
But  still  one  remains,  and  that  is  that  you  will  accept  the 
proposal  made  to  meet  in  Germany  before  your  fatal  em- 
barkation. I  can  be  in  Stuttgart  within  a  fortnight,  or  in  six 
weeks  in  Frankfort.  If  I  go  in  a  fortnight  to  Stuttgart, 
it  is  in  going  round  Switzerland  with  Mathieu,  and  making 
inquiries  there  for  a  pension  where  I  could  place  Albert.  If 
I  go  in  six  weeks  to  Frankfort,  it  would  be  by  re-entering 
France  by  Strasbourg,  and  perhaps  I  could  hand  over  Auguste 
to  you,  who  is  dying  to  go  to  school  in  Edinburgh  !  You 
have  produced  an  effect  on  both  my  children  which  proves 
to  me  how  natural  my  own  sentiments  are.  They  make  me 
Aveep  constantly  by  their  allusions  to  you  and  their  regrets 
for  you.  Ah,  I  believe  that  the  true  feelings  of  the  heart 
are  those  which  innocent  and  simple  beings  have  felt  so 
deeply.  Do  not  say  it  is  nothing  to  see  each  other  for  a 
week.  We  will  then  make  plans  for  the  next  year,  and  if  I 
give  you  my  son,  is  it  not  certain  that  I  will  go  to  Scotland 
next  spring  ?  In  fine,  my  dear  Lord,  in  this  life  where 
happiness  can  only  be  counted  in  days,  I  would  go  a  distance 
of  five  hundred  leagues  for  eight  days,  the  expectation  and 
the  memory  of  them  making  the  lot  of  a  destiny. 

What  I  Avish  is  not  to  incommode  you.  But  if  my  letter 
has  reached  you  at  Ulm,  Stuttgart  is  the  route  for  Frankfort, 
and  if  you  have  been  to  Munich  or  to  Vienna,  it  seems  to  me 
that,  if  you  return  to  England,  Frankfort  is  still  on  your  way, 
and  in  six  weeks'  time  Ave  may  meet  again  there.  By  the 
ncAvs  of  to-day  it  is  positively  stated  that  the  Prussians  will 
not  go  to  Avar  Avith  England,  and  one  can  embark  at  Embden 
on  a  Prussian  ship ;  noAv  Franlcfort  is  on  the  A\ay  to  Embden. 
Negotiations  are  proceeding,  but  I  do  not  see  that  they  are 
being  hastened,  and  what  is  being  done  quickly  are  the 
preparations  for  invasion  in  France.  However,  no  one 
belicA-es  this  Avill  take  place  before  the  month  of  March. 

I  sent  you  an  English  letter  to  Ulm,  and  shall  continue  to 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  605 

send  them  to  the  Poste  Restante  until  I  get  a  letter  from 
you  to  change  the  address.  I  wrote  the  same  to  Robertson. 
My  dear  Lord,  whenever  I  receive  letters  or  complimenls, 
do  you  know  what  is  my  first  thought  ?  It  is  a  hope  that 
I  am  worthy  enough  to  make  my  perfect  friendship  for  you 
count  for  something  in  your  life,  and  I  am  tempted,  like  l)(jn 
Quixote,  to  compel  all  those  who  praise  me  to  go  to  you  to 
say  I  love  you  and  that  you  ougiit  to  love  me.  Mathieu 
arrives  the  day  after  to-morrow,  and  will  bring  me  much  news. 
I  shall  write  the  news  to  you,  but  take  care,  I  pray  you, 
that  the  letters  do  not  get  lost  :  there  are  French  agents 
everywhere.  I  beg  of  you  often  to  write  some  lines  at 
the  end  of  your  journal  and  your  letters,  written  on  a  little 
piece  of  paper :  "  I  love  you,  I  am  well,"  and  if  possible  "  I 
expect  you  there  on  such  and  such  a  day."  There,  those  will 
be  lines  that  will  do  more  good  than  all  the  power  of  the 
First  Consul  can  ever  attain  !  Is  it  not  sweet  to  tliink  that 
in  the  midst  of  the  empire  of  power  the  empire  of  affection 
remains,  and  tliat  friendship  still  disposes  of  happiness  ?  I 
receive  this  moment  a  most  touching  letter  from  you,  as  is 
ever  all  that  comes  from  you.  I  am  much  relieved  in  mv 
mind  to  hear  that  Robertson  has  joined  you,  for  the  English 
are  in  flight  from  Lausanne.  Ah,  what  a  tyranny  !  If  this 
letter  reaches  you  in  time  for  us  to  meet  again  in  Germany, 
ah  !  my  dear  Lord,  do  wait  for  me  there.  I  love  you  each 
day  more  and  more.  There  are  in  your  mind  treasures  that 
I  may  reveal  to  you  yourself,  and  you  will  again  become  happy 
in  knowing  what  you  yourself  are  worth.  Write  to  me, 
write  to  me — never  will  you  have  inspired  a  more  tender 
sentiment  in  any  being  ! 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell, 

le  24  *  juillet, 

J'ai  brouille  toutes  les  dattes  ; 
je  ne  savois  plus  ou  on  etoit,  ni 
le  mois  ni  la  vie. 

J'ai  besoin  encor  une  fois,  my  dear  Lord,  de 
vous  prier  d'oublier  et  d'aneantir  la  Icttre  que  je 

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vous  ai  ecrite  le  jour  ou  j'appris  la  nouvelle  du 
depart  de  R.  Je  n'y  puis  penser  sans  rougir  et 
j'y  pense  sans  cesse  ;  j'avois  tort  en  tout,  et  de 
tons  les  hommes  du  monde  vous  etes  celui 
devant  qui  il  me  fait  le  plus  de  peine  de  m'etre 
presentee  a  mon  desavantage,  car  je  ne  vous  ai 
jamais  su  dire  un  mot  que  la  plus  parfaite 
convenance  ne  dut  approuver.  Mais  j'ai  pour 
excuse  un  ebranlement  de  nerfs  cruel  auquel  je 
suis  quelquefois  sujette,  et  qui  duroit  encore 
quand  I'heure  de  la  poste  me  foryoit  de  vous 
ecrire.  J'en  ai  conserve  un  engourdissement  dans 
les  mains  si  bizarre  que  je  pourrois  le  prendre 
pour  le  commencement  de  la  maladie  de  Lady 
Derby;  mais  cet  engourdissement  ne  s'etend  plus 
a  ma  raison,  et  depuis  que  je  sais  les  Anglois 
retenus  en  Suisse  j'approuve  entierement  votre 
ami  de  n'etre  pas  venu  ici  pour  8  jours  comme 
je  le  souhaitois. 

Quand  j'aurois  regu  la  lettre  ou  vous  peignez 
avec  tant  de  douceur  votre  isolement,  et  que  je 
me  serois  vue  peut-etre  dans  I'impossibilite  de 
vous  ramener  votre  ami,  j'aurois  ete  bien  mal- 
heureuse,  car  je  vous  le  repete,  dans  toutes  les 
situations  de  mon  ame,  le  sentiment  que  R. 
m'a  montre  a  cree  dans  moi  une  interet  vif 
pour  lui,  mais  votre  bonheur  m'est  aussi  neces- 
saire  que  le  sien.  Enfin  je  ne  veux  pas  consacrer 
toutes  mes  lettres  k  en  excuser  une  autre  ; 
cela  seroit  trop  ennuyeux  pour  vous,  mais  j'ai 
besoin  que  vous  m'ecriviez,  ou  que  vous  me 
disiez  si  je  vous  revois,  que  vous  pardonnez 
un  tort  qui  appartient  a  une  sorte  de  chaleur 
de  sentiments  et  de  vivacite,  de  peine  que  je 
ne  suis  pas  toujours  la  maitresse  de  couleurs. 

Je  desire  extremement  que  I'un  de  no!^ 
deux   projets,    Stutgard   dans   quinze   jours   ou 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  607 

Francfort  dans  six  semaines,  soit  accepte  par 
vous  ;  mais  si  vous  ne  pouvez  les  accepter,  si 
vous  ne  pouvez  m'attendre,  je  me  resignerai  avec 
douceur  et  tristesse,  en  me  recommandant  seule- 
ment  a  vous  pour  trouver  une  maniere  de  nous 
revoir  le  plutot  possible.  Vous  avez  raison  de 
citer  ce  vers  franyois,  lis  sont  passes^  ces  jours 
de  fete  ;  c'est  un  des  plus  melancoliques  que  je 
connoisse.  Ah,  my  dear  Lord,  rien  n'est  passe 
pour  vous,  et  tout  votre  coeur  renaitra  une  fois 
par  le  bonheur  ;  mais  moi  qui  ai  sept  ans  de 
plus  que  vous,  moi  qui  suis  dechiree  entre  mes 
devoirs  et  mes  affections,  c'est  pour  moi  que  les 
jours  de  fete  sont  passes^  et  la  derniere  fois  que 
j'ai  danse  en  vous  rappellant  Lady  Augusta  est, 
je  n'en  doute  pas,  le  dernier  jour  de  ma  vie 
d'illusion,  la  derniere  lieure  de  cette  existence 
animee  qui  en  finissant  commence  la  mort. 

Mais  je  veux  vous  dire  des  nouvelles  ;  je  ne 
veux  pas  me  laisser  aller  a  ma  profonde  tristesse. 
N'oubliez  pas  que  j'ai  ete  aimable  et  gaie  avec 
vous ;  vous  pourriez  n'en  plus  trouver  de  traces 
dans  ces  lettres  ecrites  avec  un  sentiment  encor 
si  douloureux.  Pourquoi  n'iriez  vous  pas  a  Con- 
stance ?  M.  est  arrive  ce  matin  de  Fribourg,  ou 
je  I'avois  envoye  pour  R.  et  ou  il  etoit  alle  avec 
beaucoup  de  zele. 

Le  general  Ney  a  declare  que  si  vous  aviez 
ete  pris  il  ne  vous  auroit  jamais  relache,  mais 
que  pour  un  medecin  cela  n'en  valoit  pas  la 
peine.  Vous  voyez  que  le  General  Ney  et  moi 
nous  ne  faisons  pas  grand  cas  des  medecins, 
et  il  repetoit  toujours  en  grondant  ce  petit 
Lord  qui  s'est  echappe  en  femme.  II  est  vrai 
cependant  que  c'est  bien  une  action  d'homme 
de  s'echapper  ainsi  en  femme.  II  repete  sans 
cesse  a  la  Diette  de  se  depecher  parce  qu'il  est 


608     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

presse  d'aller  en  Angleterre  avec  le  Consul.  II 
est  de  si  bon  gout  dans  les  plaisanteries  qu'il  a 
lance  I'autre  jour  a  table  toute  une  bouteille  de 
vin  de  champagne  sur  M'"  Venturi,  Ambassadeur 
de  la  Republique  Italienne,  qui  d'abord  etoit 
etonne,  mais  qui  a  fini  par  etre  charme  d'amuser 
un  moment  ce  grand  seigneur  conventionnel.  II 
y  a  des  lettres  de  Londres  du  13  juillet  par  Calais 
qui  disent  qu'on  y  souffre  beaucoup  des  impots 
et  des  banqueroutes.  Lord  Nelson  a  fait  declarer 
au  Roi  de  Naples  que  s'il  recevoit  les  Frangois 
dans  Naples  il  la  bombarderoit.  Sur  cela  on  a 
envoye  un  courier  au  Consul  pour  savoir  s'il 
ordonnoit  toujours  aux  troupes  de  marcher ;  je 
ne  doute  pas  qu'il  ne  persiste.  On  dit  que  I'elec- 
torat  d'Hanovre  va  etre  partage  entre  le  Roi  de 
Prusse  et  le  Due  de  Mecklenbourg,  beau-frere  de 
I'Empereur  de  Russie.  II  seroit  bien  a  desirer  pour 
I'Europe  que  cet  Empereur  eut  un  peu  moins  de 
vertus  domestiques.  Au  reste  on  ne  craint  plus 
la  guerre  avec  la  Prusse. 

Pourquoi  n'iriez  vous  pas  a  Munich  voir 
les  etablissements  du  C*^  de  Rumford  ?  ou  a 
Carlsruhe  de  I'autre  cote  ou  il  y  a  les  plus 
beaux  jardins  du  monde  ?  Je  reviens  tou- 
jours a  mon  idee  favorite  ;  donnez  moi  un 
rendez-vous  en  Allemagne  a  deux  jours  de  la 
frontiere  suisse,  ou  dans  quinze  jours  ou  dans  un 
mois  ou  dans  six  semaines.  Decidez,  et  simple- 
ment  ecrivez  le  nom  de  la  ville  et  la  datte  du 
jour;  j'y  serai.  Indiquez  moi  bien  exactement 
I'adresse  ou  il  faut  vous  ecrire.  Voila  la  cin- 
quieme  lettre  que  je  vous  ecris  a  Ulm  en  com- 
prenant  celle  d'Angleterre  envoyee  par  moi,  et 
quatre  a  R.  en  comprenant  celle  qui  lui  sera 
renvoyee  de  Baden.  Voila  de  quoi  effrayer  I'hote 
de  la  Rose  d'Or,  mais  tant  que  je  vous  sais  au 


MADx\ME    DE    STAEL  609 

milieu  des  yung  frau  il  me  semble  que  vous 
n'avez  rien  de  mieux  a  faire  que  de  me  lire ;  je 
serai  plus  discrette  quand  vous  serez  en  Angle- 
terre. 

Voulez  vous  donner  k  R.  ces  vers  de  moi 
faits  a  I'age  de  seize  ans,  qu'il  m'a  demandes 
plusieurs  fois.  Vous  voyez  que  dej^  j'avois  le 
besoin  d'etre  aimee  ;  je  Tai  toujours  desire,  et 
des  que  j'ai  aime  je  me  suis  persuadee  que  je  ne 
I'etois  pas  :  c'est  une  maladie  de  mon  coeur  qui 
me  fait  plus  de  mal  qu'aux  autres.  Je  sais  que 
MacCulloch  et  Call  se  sont  enfuis  a  Neufchatel ; 
mais  MacCulloch  m'ayant  demande  de  lui  dire 
de  rester,  et  moi  I'ayant  refuse,  il  est  parti  sans 
m'ecrire.  Je  suis  inquiette  de  lui,  car  il  est  bien 
violent.  M"''  Call  va  en  Allemagne  ;  nous  pourrions 
tous  nous  trouver  reunis  dans  la  ville  que  vous 
designerez.  Cette  dispersion,  meme  des  interets 
secondaires,  est  profondcment  triste  :  a  qui  par- 
lerai-je  anglois  ?  Ah,  pourquoi  vous  ai-je  connus  ? 
Je  n'ai  de  ma  vie  tant  souffert  que  depuis  quel- 
ques  jours.     Adieu — God  bless  you  and  me. 

[Translation.'] 

2'Uh  *  July. 

I  have  confused  all  my  dates ;  I 
didn't  know  where  I  was  in  the 
month  nor  in  hfe. 

I  want  once  more,  my  dear  Lord,  to  beg  of  you  to  forget 
and  destroy  the  letter  I  wrote  you  the  day  I  heard  of  R.'s  d(;- 
parture.  1  can't  think  of  it  without  blushing,  and  I  think  of 
it  constantly  ;  it  was  a  mistake  altogether,  and  of  all  men  in 
this  world  you  are  the  one  before  whom  it  grieves  me  most 
to  show  myself  at  a  disadvantage,  for  I  have  never  known 
you  say  one  word  to  which  any  one  could  take  exception. 
But  my  only  excuse  is  a  nervous  prostration  to  which  I  am  at 

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CIO     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

times  subject,  and  from  which  I  was  suffering  when  post-time 
obliged  me  to  write  to  you.  It  left  me  with  such  a  strange 
numbness  in  the  hands  that  I  might  have  taken  it  for  the 
symptoms  of  Lady  Derby's  illness  ;  but  this  numbness  does 
not  extend  to  my  brain,  and  since  I  know  that  the  English  are 
detained  in  Switzerland,  I  quite  approve  of  your  friend's  not 
having  come  here  for  a  week  as  I  had  wished. 

Had  I  then  received  your  letter  w  here  you  described  with 
so  much  gentleness  your  isolation,  and  had  found  it  impossible 
to  bring  your  friend  back  to  you,  I  should  have  been  very 
unhappy,  for  I  repeat,  that  the  feeling  which  R.  showed  me 
has  roused  in  me  a  great  interest  for  him,  but  your  happiness 
is  as  necessary  to  me  as  his.  However,  I  will  not  devote  all 
my  letters  to  making  excuses  for  others ;  that  would  be  too 
tedious  for  you  ;  but  I  want  you  to  write  to  me,  to  tell  me 
that  you  forgive  an  error  which  is  attributable  to  a  sort  of 
warmth  of  sentiment  and  vivacity,  so  that  often  I  am  scarcely 
able  to  control  my  language. 

I  want  you  so  much  to  accept  one  of  our  two  projects — 
Stuttgart  in  a  fortniglit,  or  Frankfort  in  six  weeks  ;  but  if  you 
cannot  do  this,  if  you  cannot  wait  for  me,  I  will  resign  myself 
sadly,  counting  on  you  to  find  a  means  for  us  to  meet  again 
as  soon  as  possible.  Well  may  you  quote  the  French  verses, 
"  Hs  sont  passes,  ces  jours  de  fete  "  ;  they  are  some  of  the 
saddest  I  know.  Ah,  my  dear  Lord,  nothing  is  passed  for 
you,  all  your  heart  will  live  once  again  with  happiness ;  but 
I  who  am  seven  years  older  than  you,  I  who  am  torn  between 
my  duties  and  my  affections,  it  is  for  me  that  those  days  are 
over,  and  the  last  time  I  danced,  reminding  you  of  Lady 
Augusta,  was,  I  doubt  not,  the  last  day  of  my  life  of  illusions, 
the  last  day  of  that  animated  existence  which  in  ending 
commences  death. 

But  I  want  to  give  you  news,  and  not  abandon  myself  to 
my  profound  sadness.  Do  not  forget  that  I  have  been 
amiable  and  gay  with  you  ;  you  might  find  no  trace  of  it  in 
these  letters  written  in  such  a  melanclioly  strain.  Why 
should  you  not  go  to  Constanz  1  M.  arrived  from  Fribourg 
this  morning,  where  he  went  to  fetch  R.  and  where  he  went 
with  much  zeal. 

General  Ney  declared  that  had  you  been  caught  he  would 
never  have  let  you  go  ;  but  for  a  doctor  it  was  not  worth 
his  while.  You  see  that  neither  the  General  nor  I  take 
much  count  of  doctors,  and  he  keeps  repeating  grumblingly 
"  that  little  Lord  escaping  in  woman's  garb  "  !     It  is  true  all 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  611 

the  same  that  it  is  quite  manly  to  escape  disguised  as  a 
woman.  He  insists  all  the  time  on  the  Diet  hurrying,  as 
lie  is  in  a  hurry  to  go  to  England  with  the  Consul.  His 
pleasantries  are  in  such  good  taste  that  the  other  day  at 
table  he  flung  a  bottle  of  champagne  at  M.  Venturi,  Am- 
bassador to  the  Italian  Republic,  who  was  at  first  astonished, 
but  ended  by  being  charmed  at  being  able  to  afford  amuse- 
ment to  a  notable  member  of  the  Convention.  There  are 
letters  from  London  of  the  20th  July  vid  Calais  saying  that 
there  is  much  suffering  there  caused  by  the  taxes  and  bank- 
ruptcies. Lord  Nelson  has  informed  the  King  of  Naples 
that  if  he  receives  the  French  in  Naples  he  will  bombard  it. 
Thereupon  a  courier  was  despatched  to  the  Consul  to  inquire 
whether  he  would  continue  to  order  the  troops  to  advance  ; 
I  don't  doubt  that  he  will  persist.  They  say  the  Electorate 
of  Hanover  is  to  be  divided  between  the  King  of  Prussia  and 
the  Duke  of  Mecklenburg,  brother-in-law  of  the  Emperor  of 
Russia.  It  is  a  pity  for  the  rest  of  Europe  that  the  Emperor 
has  not  a  little  less  domestic  virtue.  War  is  no  longer  feared 
with  Prussia. 

Why  should  you  not  go  to  Munich  to  see  the  establishments 
of  the  Count  de  Rumford  ?  or  to  Carlsruhe  on  the  other  side, 
where  there  are  the  finest  gardens  in  the  world  ?  I  keep 
coming  back  to  my  favourite  idea.  Let  us  meet  in  Germany 
two  days'  journey  from  the  frontier,  or  in  a  fortnight,  or  month, 
or  six  weeks.  Decide,  and  simply  write  me  the  name  of  the 
town  and  the  date  ;  I  will  be  there.  Let  me  know  clearly  the 
exact  address  to  which  to  write  to  you.  This  is  the  fifth  letter 
I  have  wi'itten  you  at  Ulm,  counting  the  one  I  sent  to  England, 
and  four  to  Robertson ;  what  with  the  one  forwarded  from 
Baden,  it  is  enough  to  frighten  the  landlord  of  the  Rose  d'Or, 
but  as  long  as  I  know  you  to  be  among  the  Jungfraus,  I  feel 
that  you  can  have  nothing  much  better  to  do  than  to  read 
me  ;   I  shall  be  more  discreet  when  you  reach  England. 

Please  give  Robertson  these  verses  of  mine  written  at  the 
age  of  sixtt^en,  which  he  has  asked  me  for  several  times.  You 
see  I  already  had  a  desire  to  be  loved,  and  when  I  have  loved 
I  have  persuaded  myself  that  I  was  not  loved  in  return  :  it 
is  a  malady  of  my  heart  more  painful  to  me  than  to  others, 
I  know  that  Call  and  McCuUoch  have  fled  to  Neufehatel,  but 
McCulIoch  having  asked  me  to  make  him  stay,  and  I  having 
refused,  he  left  without  writing  to  me  ;  I  am  anxious  about 
him,  for  he  is  very  violent.  Miss  Call  is  going  to  Germany ; 
we   might  all  meet  there  in  whichever   town   you   suggest 


612     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

This  dispersion,  even  of  my  secondary  objects  of  interest, 
is  extremely  sad  :  to  whom  shall  I  talk  English  ?  Ah,  why 
have  I  ever  known  you  ?  I  have  never  in  my  life  suffered 
so  much  as  in  the  last  few  days  !  Adieu — God  bless  you 
and  me. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Voila,  my  dear  Lord,  une  lettre  d'Angleterre. 
Celle  que  j'ecris  a  R.  contient  une  nouvelle  que 
vous  n'apprendrez  pas  sans  peine.  Je  sens  ap- 
procher  Forage  qui  nie  jettera  sur  vos  cotes;  je 
voudrais  vous  revoir  encor,  et  il  me  semble  que 
je  I'espere. 

25  jiiillet. 

[Translation.] 

Here,  my  dear  Lord,  is  a  letter  from  England.  The  one 
I  am  writing  to  Robertson  contains  news  that  will  give  yuu 
pain.  I  feel  the  storm  approaching  that  will  throw  me  on 
your  shores.     I  want  to  see  you  once  more,  and  I  seem  to  hope 

for  it. 

25  Julij. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

CoppET,  le  2  aoust. 

Voila  Robertson  qui  m'ecrit,  my  dear  Lord,  que 
vous  etes  parti  pour  Vienne  sans  I'attendre.  Je  le 
plains  du  fond  du  cceur  de  son  voyage  solitaire, 
et  je  trouve  que  nous  avons  bien  mal  arrange 
notre  vie.  Vous  m'avez  ecrit  de  vous  adresser 
vos  lettres  d'Angleterre  a  Ulm  ;  elles  y  sont  toutes 
avec  les  miennes,  que  je  ne  voudrois  pas  qui  torn- 
bassent  en  d'autres  mains  que  les  votres.  Au  lieu 
des  projets  qu'elles  contiennent  je  vous  en  off  re 
deux.  L'un,  qui  est  le  moins  bon,  c'est,  si  vous 
retournez  en  Angleterre,  de  passer  par  Constance 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  613 

ou  Stutgard  ou  Tubingen  en  vous  rendant  a 
Francfort,  et  de  me  donner  rendez-vous  la  Ic 
premier  dc  scptcmbre.  Jc  ne  peux  pas  allcr  plus 
loin  que  deux  jours  de  Suisse.  Si  vous  venez  plus 
pres  de  la  Suisse  je  resterai  plus  long-tems  avec 
vous.  Dans  mon  voyage  de  Suisse  avec  Matthieu, 
que  je  tiens  en  suspens  pour  avoir  votre  reponse, 
je  puis  prendre  six  a  sept  jours  pour  vous  aller 
voir. 

Mais  le  second  de  nos  projets  m'est  bien 
plus  doux.  Rester  a  Vienne  jusqu'au  quinze 
d'octobre,  ou  a  Venise  si  Vienne  vous  ennuye,  et 
soyez  le  \"  de  novembre  a  Francfort  sur  le  Mein 
a  une  journee  de  Strasbourg,  J[e]  m'y  trouverai 
en  re[v]enant  de  Paris,  oi\  je  ne  veux  passer  que 
six  semaines  pour  payer  ]es  dettes  de  M""  de  St. 
La  nous  irons  passer  I'hyver  ou  vous  voudrez,  y 
compris  Stockolm,  ou  j'ai  des  affaires.  II  est 
certain  qu'il  ne  sera  pas  question  de  descente 
cette  annce,  et  Ton  croit  asscz  a  des  negociations 
de  paix  cet  hyver.  Que  j'aimerois  a  le  passer 
tout  entier  a  Berlin  avec  vous-mcme,  ou  partout 
ailleurs,  a  Venise,  en  Italic,  a  Vienne,  si  je  ne 
craignis  pas  quelque  difllcultes  pour  y  arriver. 
Le  mois  que  j'ai  passe  avec  vous  deux  a  cte 
parfaitement  heureux ;  si  vous  avez  conserve 
quelques  souvenirs  de  ce  terns,  recommen^ons  le. 
J'attends  votre  reponse  pour  fixer  mcs  projets ; 
je  vais  rester  ici  sans  en  sortir  jusques  a  ce 
qu'elle  m'arrive,  et  je  pars  apres  I'avoir  re^ue 
suivant  la  route  que  vous  m'indiquerez.  On  ne 
pent  plus,  dit-on,  passer  par  Tonningen.  Les 
Fran9ois  sont  entr^s  a  Lubeck.  M""  vvilkins 
mande  qu'ils  cernent  la  terre  tout  autour.  La 
Prusse  reste,  dit-il,  dccidcment  neutre.  La 
colonic  anglaise  qui  est  a  Neufchatel  ira  a  Vienne 
ou   a  Berlin ;    ils    regardent    comme   impossible 


614     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

d'aller  en  Angleterre.  II  paroit  que  les  ord[res] 
de  les  arreter  ne  sont  pas  donnes  ici,  et  les 
[FranJ^ois  quitteront  le  pays,  a  ce  qu'on  assure, 
dans  deux  mois. 

Vous  aurez  vu  par  mes  lettres  d'Ulm  que 
Christin  a  ete  arrete  comme  agent  de  1 'Angleterre  ; 
j'ai  obtenu  qu'il  fut  transfere  chez  lui,  niais  il 
y  avait  dans  son  journal  et  dans  mes  billets 
adresses  a  lui  pendant  qu'il  etait  a  Fribourg  par 
Robertson  de  quoi  me  suivre  assez  serieusement. 
En  un  mot,  vous  me  rendrez  un  service  inou'i 
en  me  tirant  de  cette  France,  et  comment  avoir 
le  cou[rag]e  d'en  sortir  si  des  amis  ne  vous 
resolvent  pas  ?  Matthieu  est  ici ;  il  m'a  apporte 
bien  des  lettres  de  France,  mais  mes  idees  et  mes 
sentiments  ont  pris  un  autre  cours,  and  God 
save,  &c.  Accepterez  vous  mon  petit  ou  mon 
grand  projet  ?  car  je  n'ai  pas  le  courage  de 
supporter  que  vous  puissiez  les  rejetter  tons  les 
deux.  Adieu  ;  ecrivez  moi — -vous  le  devez  puisque 
je  le  desire  si  vivement  et  qu'une  petite  peine 
que  vous  prendrez  me  fera  tant  de  plaisir. 

S'il  vous  vient  des  lettres  d' Angleterre,  je  vous 
les  adresserai  k  Vienne  poste  restante  jusques  a 
ce  que  vous  m'ayez  donne  le  nom  de  vos  ban- 
quiers.  J'ecris  a  Robertson  par  ce  courier  poste 
restante. 

(Addressed)     To  the  right  hon'''^ 

Lord  John  Campbell. 

[Translatio7i.] 

CoppET,  2nd  August. 

Robertson  writes  to  me,  my  dear  Lord,  that  you  left 
for  Vienna  M'ithout  waiting  for  him.  I  pity  him  from  the 
bottom  of  my  heart,  and  I  think  we  manage  our  hves  very 
badly.  You  told  me  to  address  all  3'our  letters  from  England 
to  Ulm;  thej  are  all  there,  witji  mine,  which  I  would  not 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  C15 

have  fall  into  other  hands  than  yours.  Instead  of  the  pro- 
jects therein  contained  I  ofTer  you  two  more.  One  of  these, 
which  is  the  less  good  one,  is  that,  if  you  return  to  England, 
you  should  go  by  Constance  or  Stuttgart  or  Tubingen  to 
Frankfort,  and  that  we  should  meet  there  on  the  1st  September. 
I  may  not  go  farther  than  two  days'  journey  from  Switzer- 
land. If  you  come  nearer  to  Switzerland  I  can  stay  longer 
with  you.  During  my  journey  with  Mathieu  (which  I  am 
keeping  open  till  I  hear  from  you)  I  seize  six  or  seven  days 
to  go  and  see  you. 

But  the  second  plan  is  far  more  attractive  to  me.  Remain 
at  Vienna  till  October  15th,  or  at  Venice  if  Vienna  bores  you, 
and  be  at  Frankfort  on  November  1st,  one  day's  journey  from 
Strasbourg.  I  will  be  there  on  my  return  from  Paris,  \\'here 
I  shall  only  spend  six  weeks  to  pay  M.  de  Stael's  debts.  Then 
we  shall  go  and  spend  the  winter  wherever  you  like,  including 
Stockholm,  where  I  have  business.  There  will  certainly 
be  no  question  of  an  invasion  this  year,  and  there  are  hopes 
of  Peace  negotiations.  How  I  should  love  to  spend  the 
whole  winter  with  you  at  Berlin,  or  anywhere  else,  Venice,  in 
Ital}^  or  Vienna,  if  only  I  did  not  fear  some  difficulty  in 
being  able  to  get  there  !  The  month  I  spent  with  you  two 
was  one  of  perfect  happiness ;  if  you  have  retained  any 
memories  of  it,  let  us  repeat  it.  I  await  your  answer  before 
settling  my  plans.  I  shall  stay  here  till  it  arrives,  and  on 
receipt  of  it  I  shall  take  the  route  you  suggest.  It  is  not 
possible,  it  appears,  to  go  by  Tonningen.  The  French  have 
entered  Lubeck.  Mr.  Wilkins  announces  that  they  have  sur- 
rounded all  the  neighbouring  district.  Prussia  remains,  he 
says,  decidedly  neutral.  The  English  colony  at  Neufchatel 
will  go  to  Vienna  or  Berlin,  as  they  consider  it  impossible 
to  go  to  England.  It  appears  that  orders  for  their  arrest 
have  not  been  issued  here,  and  the  French  will  leave  the 
country,  so  we  are  assured,  in  two  months. 

You  will  have  seen  by  my  letters  that  Christin  has  been 
arrested  as  an  English  agent.  I  obtained  leave  for  him  to 
be  transferred  to  his  own  house,  but  there  was  that  in  his 
journal  and  in  notes  I  addressed  to  him  at  Fribourg  through 
Robertson  to  involve  me  somewhat  seriously.  In  a  word, 
you  will  be  rendering  me  a  great  ser\'ice  by  getting  me  out  of 
this  France ;  and  how  is  one  to  find  courage  for  this  if  one's 
friend  will  not  receive  one  ?  Mathieu  is  here,  and  he  brought 
me  numberless  letters  from  France.  But  my  sentiments  have 
/ound  ajiotbejr  channel^  and  God  sgve.  etc.     Will  you  accept 


616     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

my  great  or  my  little  project  ?  for  I  have  not  the  courage 
to  contemplate  the  possibility  of  your  rejecting  them  both  ! 
Adieu  ;  Avrite  to  me — you  must  since  I  desire  it  so  ardently, 
and  since  a  small  effort  on  your  part  will  give  me  so  much 
pleasure. 

If  any  letters  from  England  come  for  you,  I  will  address 
them  to  you  poste  rcstante  until  you  give  the  name  of  your 
bankers.     I  am  writing  to  Robertson  poste  restante. 


Madame  de  Sta'el  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

le  5  aoust. 

My  dear  lord,  je  vous  ai  ecrit  sous  I'adresse  du 
g^'  Groissard  le  dernier  courier;  et  je  vous  recris 
encor  quoiqu'il  me  prenne  quelquefois  I'in- 
quietude  que  vous  ne  commenciez  a  m'oublier. 
II  y  a  des  lettres  de  Londres  ici  du  26  juillet;  le 
commerce  y  etait  triste  et  souhaitait  la  paix.  On 
en  parle  encor  dans  les  papiers  d'aujourd'hui, 
mais  faiblement.  On  ne  croit  pas  a  aucune  tenta- 
tive de  descente  cette  annee ;  en  effet  il  est  de 
I'avantage  de  la  France  de  retarder  et  d'user  les 
finances  d' Angleterre  en  preparatif s.  M*"  Heref ort, 
parent  du  Due  de  Norfolk,  que  j'ai  vu  aujourd'hui, 
m'a  dit  qu'entre  Fontainebleau  et  Paris  il  n'y 
avait  pas  plus  de  250  Anglais,  dont  cent  domes- 
tiques  ou  ouvriers.  II  arrive  de  Paris  avec  un  passe 
port ;  les  mesures  a  cet  egard  deviennent  moins 
severes.  M*"  Herr  est  retourne.  Lady  Elisabeth 
Foster  s'en  inquietait  beaucoup  avec  une  grande 
bonte.  Son  fils  et  Lord  Duncanon  sont  aussi 
retournes.  M'"  Robson  a  ecrit  de  Lyon  une  belle 
lettre  au  Premier  Consul  lui-meme,  qui  lui  a  valu 
de  venir  a  Paris  ;  il  vaut  mieux  s'etre  sauve  en 
femme. 

Cette  pauvre  famille  de  Beverley  est  desolee 
du  depart  de  M""  Piercy ;  quand  je  serai  a  Paris 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  617 

je  le  lui  ferai  rendre,  j'espere,  mais  vous  savez 
que  j 'attends  votre  reponsc  pour  savoir  si 
je  serai  le  l*^""  septembre  pour  deux  jours 
a  Tubingen  ou  Stutgard,  ou  le  l^""  novembre  a 
Francfort,  partant  de  la  pour  passer  I'hyver  a 
Berlin.  Oh  que  j'aime  ce  dernier  projet !  liady 
Mountcastle  est  arrivee  hier,  et  sa  mere  Lady 
Kingston  et  deux  Lady  King ;  tout  cela  va  a 
Stutgard.  Le  pauvre  Christin  est  toujours  arrete, 
mais  doucement  traite.  Je  crois  toiitc  la  colonic 
dc  Neufchatel  en  route  pour  Stutgard.  II  parait 
cependant  qu'il  n'y  a  point  d'ordres  donnes  en 
Suisse  pour  les  arreter.  Le  g ''  Ney  vous  ayant  vu 
a  Fribourg  a  eprouve  comme  moi  le  desir  de  vous 
retenir ;  voila  ce  qui  me  parait  le  plus  probable. 
]^-£iies  ]3ei.i.iez  sont  aussi  en  route  pour  Stutgard. 
La  Princesse  d'Angleterre  attire  la  les  Anglais,  et 
tons  regardent  le  retour  en  Angleterre  a  present 
comme  trop  difficile.  Puissiez  vous  en  juger  ainsi 
et  me  donner  cet  hj^ver.  J'en  serai  si  reconnais- 
sante  que  je  taclierai  de  parler  anglais,  mieux 
pour  vous  plaire,  et  encore  assez  mal  pour  vous 
amuser.  Adieu,  my  dear  Lord;  j 'attends  votre 
reponsc  pour  savoir  ce  que  je  ferai. 

J'ecris  sous  cette  meme  adresse  a  Rob.  Mad. 
de  Saussure  est  triste  et  malade  ;  elle  voudrait 
bien  aussi  aller  a  Berlin. 


[Translation.] 

5th  August. 

My  dear  Lord,  I  wrote  to  you  under  the  address  of  General 
Groissard  by  the  last  courier,  and  J  write  to  you  again  althougli 
sometimes  1  am  seized  with  doubts  whether  you  begin  to 
forget  me.  There  are  letters  here  froju  London  of  the  2Gth 
July.  Commerce  then  was  dull  and  Peace  was  longed  for. 
In  the  papers  to-day  Peace  is  still  spoken  of,  but  feebly. 
No  one  believes  in  any  attempt  at  an  invasion  this  year. 
In  truth  it  is  to  the  advantage  of  France  to  delay  it,  and  to  use 

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618     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

up  the  finances  of  England  in  preparations.  Mr.  Herefort, 
a  relative  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  whom  I  saw  to-day,  told 
nie  that  between  Fontainebleau  and  Paris  there  were  not 
more  than  250  English,  of  Avhom  100  were  servants  and  work- 
men. He  arrived  from  Paris  with  a  passport.  The  measures 
taken  with  regard  to  the  passports  are  less  severe.  Mr.  Herr 
has  returned.  Lady  Elisabeth  Foster,  with  great  kindness, 
took  much  trouble  about  this.  Her  son  and  Lord  Duncannon 
have  also  returned.  Mr.  Robson  wrote  an  excellent  letter 
from  Lyons  to  the  First  Consul,  which  ended  in  his  going 
to  Paris.     It  is  wiser  to  save  oneself  in  the  guise  of  a  woman. 

The  poor  Beverley  family  is  miserable  at  the  departure  of 
Mr.  Percy.  When  I  am  in  Paris  I  hope  to  be  able  to  restore 
him  to  them.  But  you  know  I  await  your  reply  to  know  if  I 
am  to  be  at  Tiibingen  for  two  days  on  the  1st  September  or  at 
Stuttgart,  or  on  the  1st  November  at  Frankfort,  leaving  that 
place  to  pass  the  winter  at  Berlin.  Oh  how  I  love  that  last 
project  !  Lady  Mountcastle  arrived  yesterday,  her  mother 
Lady  Kingston  and  the  two  Ladies  King.  All  these  go  to 
Stuttgart.  Poor  Christin  is  still  under  arrest,  but  treated 
gently.  I  believe  all  the  Neufchatel  colony  to  be  en  route 
for  Stuttgart.  It  seems,  however,  that  there  have  been  no 
orders  issued  to  arrest  them  in  Switzerland.  General  Ney 
having  seen  you  in  Switzerland  felt  like  me  a  wish  to  keep 
you.  This  seemed  to  me  very  probable.  Misses  Berry  are  also 
going  to  Stuttgart.  The  Princess  of  England  draws  all  the 
English  there,  and  all  regard  the  return  to  England  as  too 
difficult  at  present.  May  you  also  tliink  as  they  do,  and  give 
this  winter  to  me  !  I  would  be  so  grateful  that  I  would  try 
t(j  speak  English,  to  speak  it  better  to  please  you,  and  yet 
badly  enough  to  amuse  you  !  Adieu,  my  dear  Lord.  I  await 
your  reply  to  know  what  I  shall  do. 

I  write  under  the  same  address  to  Robertson.  Mme.  de 
Saussure  is  sad  and  ill.     She  too  would  gladly  go  to  Berlin. 


Madame  de  Sta'el  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Voulez     v[ous]    avoir     la  Coppet,  le  9  7'",  Suiss[e1. 

bonte      de      faire     parvenir  Cast  toujours  ici  qii'il  faut 

siu'ement  cette  lettre  a  W.  m'adresser  vos  lettres. 

Je  vous  ecris  done  a  Londres,  my  dear  Lord,  et 
qui  salt  a  present  quand  je  vous  reverrai  I     C'est 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  619 

une  terrible  barricre  que  cette  mer,  et  si  elle 
sauve  votre  independance  elle  met  un  cruel 
obstacle  entre  nous.  Votre  dernicre  lettre  a  moi 
etait  de  Pragues,  et  vous  n'aviez  pas  encore  regu 
ni  ma  lettre  a  Vienne  ni  celle  a  Tourringen. 
J'esperc  que  vous  me  repondrez  ;  j'espere  que 
vous  ne  laisscrez  pas  t[om]ber  nos  rapports 
ensemble.  Une  fois  nous  nous  reunirons,  car  je 
vous  aime,  et  j'irai  vous  chercher  des  que  je  le 
pourrai  sans  dechirer  mes  liens  naturels.  Je  vais 
en  France  dans  liuit  jours,  et  de  la  je  vous  ecrirai 
en  employant  quelquefois  la  main  d'Auguste  s'il 
y  a  des  nouvelles  dans  ma  lettre.  Je  fais  des 
projets  pour  la  France  sans  savoir  trop  ce  qui 
m'y  arrivera,  mais  ne  pouvant  plus  mener  ici  la 
douce  vie  que  je  vous  devais  a  tous  les  deux, 
celle  que  j'aurais  voulu  prolonger  tout  le  reste 
de  mon  existence,  je  veux  savoir  si  la  France 
pent  encor  ctre  ma  patrie  et  celle  de  mes 
enfants. 

Les  partis  les  plus  decides,  si  je  dois  les  prendre, 
doivent  m'etre  commandes  par  la  necessite ;  elle 
sera  mon  excuse  aupres  de  mon  pere  et  de  moi- 
meme.  Dans  tous  les  cas,  si  Robertson  persiste 
dans  le  projet  qu'il  m'ecrit  dc  Berlin,  j'irai  I'y 
voir  avec  un  extreme  plaisir,  soit  cet  hyver,  soit 
ce  printems,  suivant  I'epoque  qu'il  choisira.  S'il 
ne  venait  qu'au  printems,  ne  serait-il  done  pas 
possible  que  vous  fissiez  ce  voyage  ?  Tout 
danger  de  descente  serait  passe  alors.  Vous 
verriez  avec  moi  rAUemagne,  que  vous  n'avez 
pu  connaitre  en  la  traversant  si  rapidement.  La 
Suisse  nous  serait  peut-etre  ouverte,  car  on  assure 
que  les  troupes  frangaises  la  quitteront ;  et 
ritalie  I'hyver  ensuite.  II  m'est  impossible, 
dussai-je  etre  seule  dans  mes  chimeres,  de  ne 
pas  faire  des  projets  de  voyage  avec  vous.    Vous 


620     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

m'avez  rendue  parfaitement  heureuse  pendant 
nos  relations  ensemble,  et  dans  le  cours  de  ma 
vie  j'ai  si  peu  connu  ce  sentiment,  que  je  n'oub- 
lierai  jamais  entre  tons  vos  agrements  celui  qui 
doit  etre  mis  au  premier  rang,  le  talent  de  rendre 
heureux.  Hclas,  vous  donnez  le  bonheur  que  vous 
n'avez  pas.  Dites  moi  de  vous  ce  que  vous  vous 
permettez  d'en  dire,  un  mot  sur  I'etat  de  votre 
ame  et  de  votre  sante.  Vous  n'avez  jamais  voulu 
m'ouvrir  votre  coeur,  et  j'ai  toujours  senti  que 
mon  attachement  pour  vous  m'en  [a]  rendue  digne. 
Moi  je  n'ai  pas  craint  de  vous  laisser  lire  dans 
mon  coeur,  et  j'ose  penser  que  votre  frere  lui- 
meme  ne  connaitra  pas  I'inconvenable  abandon 
que  mes  lettres  ont  exprime  dans  un  moment  de 
grande  peine. 

Les  lettres  de  France  parlent  toujours 
d'armees,  de  bateaux  plats,  de  descente,  &c,, 
mais  il  y  a  cependant  des  gens  qui  croyent 
encor  que  Ton  se  contentera  des  menaces  qui 
font  la  guerre  a  vos  finances.  Le  pauvre  Chr. 
est  au  Temple  et  n'a  point  ete  interroge  encor. 
On  le  designe  seulement  dans  les  gazettes  comme 
ayant  eu  des  rapports  avec  les  Anglais.  Si  vous 
aimer  est  un  crime  je  suis  bien  plus  coupable 
que  lui.  Mon  pere  a  ecrit  a  novel  [e]n  60  pages 
qui  est  ce  que  je  connais  au  monde  de  plus 
touchant.  C'est  la  suite  d'un  defi  que  je  lui  avals 
donne  en  ecrivant  Delphine.  Cette  nouvelle  sera 
imprimee  anonyme  dans  la  Bibl.  britannique,  et 
je  I'enverrai  a  Lady  Charlotte.  Je  vous  prie,  faites 
qu'elle  s'interesse  un  peu  a  moi.  Lady  Charlotte. 
Je  ne  vois  pas  un  Anglais  sans  parler  d'elle.  J'ai 
passe  hier  la  soiree  chez  Lady  Beverley,  qui  se 
flatte  de  voir  revenir  M"^  Percy,  et  qui  m'a  paru 
assez  contente.  Ah,  permettez  moi  de  vous 
dire  que  je  ne  puis  me  consoler  de  your  escape. 


^^T^^r^  LlBBARY, 

.IPTON,  MASS. 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  621 

Combien  j'aiirais  etc  pour  vous  un  doux  geolier. 
Farewell ;  Albcrtine  parle  sans  cesse  de  vous. 

{Addressed)     franco  Engiro.  Angleterre. 

To  the  right  h^'° 

Lord  John  Campbell, 
in  vereray  argyll's  house 
North  britania, 

Scotland. 

[Translation.] 

Pleaso  forward  tho  Coppkt,  dth  Sept.,  Switzerland. 

enclosed  letter  to  R.  Always  address  my  letters  here. 

I  am  writing  to  you  then  at  London,  my  dear  Lord,  and 
who  knows  when  I  shall  sec  you  again  !  The  sea  is  a  terrible 
barrier,  and  if  it  preserves  your  independence,  it  also  places 
a  terrible  obstacle  between  us.  Your  last  letter  to  me  was 
from  Prague,  and  you  had  not  received  either  my  letter  to 
\^ienna  or  that  to  Tiibingen.  I  hope  that  you  will  reply  to 
me — that  you  will  not  let  our  relations  drop.  One  of  these 
days  we  shall  be  reunited,  and  I  shall  come  and  find  you 
as  soon  as  I  can  do  so  Avithout  severing  my  natural  tics. 
I  am  going  to  France  in  a  week's  time,  and  thence  I  will 
write  to  you,  sometimes  by  the  hand  of  Auguste  if  there  is 
news  in  my  letter.  I  make  plans  for  France  without  know- 
ing exactly  what  is  going  to  happen  to  me  there  ;  but  imable 
any  longer  to  lead  here  the  pleasant  life  I  owed  to  you  two 
— which  I  wish  I  could  have  prolonged  for  the  rest  of  my 
existence — I  M'ish  to  know  if  France  can  be  again  my  country 
and  that  of  my  children. 

A  decided  course,  if  I  must  take  it,  will  be  imposed  on 
me  by  necessity  ;  that  will  be  my  excuse  for  my  father  and 
myself.  In  any  case,  if  Robertson  persists  in  the  project 
about  which  he  has  written  me  from  Berlin,  I  will  go  to 
see  him  \Nith  extreme  pleasure,  either  this  winter  or  the 
spring,  as  he  may  elect.  If  it  is  spring,  could  you  not  come 
also  ?  All  danger  of  an  invasion  would  be  past  then.  You 
M'ould  then  see  Germany  in  my  company,  which  you  have 
not  been  able  to  see,  traversing  it  so  rapidly.  Switzerland 
perhaps  would  be  open  to  us,  for  they  say  the  French  troops 
will  evacuate  it ;  and  Italy  the  winter  following.  I  cannot 
help  making  these  plans,  even  if  I  am  alone  in  ray  dreamg. 


622     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

You  made  me  so  perfectly  happy  during  our  relations,  and 
in  the  course  of  my  life  I  have  so  little  experienced  that 
sensation  that  among  all  your  accomplishments  I  shall  never 
forget  to  place  first  the  talent  of  making  others  happy.  Alas, 
you  impart  the  happiness  that  you  don't  possess  !  Tell  me 
what  you  will  allow  yourself  to  sa}^  a  word  on  the  state  of 
your  mind  and  your  health.  You  have  never  opened  your 
heart  to  me,  and  I  always  felt  that  my  attachment  for  you 
rendered  me  worthy  of  it.  I  have  not  feared  your  reading 
my  heart,  and  I  venture  to  hope  that  your  brother  himself 
will  not  know  the  indecorous  abandon  which  my  letters  in 
a  moment  of  sorrow  have  expressed. 

Letters  from  France  speak  always  of  armies,  fiat-bottomed 
boats,  of  the  invasion,  etc.,  but  there  are  still  people  who 
believe  that  all  this  only  means  a  war  against  your 
financial  resources.  Poor  Christin  is  at  the  Temple,  and 
has  not  yet  been  interrogated.  In  the  papers  they  speak 
of  him  only  as  having  had  relations  with  the  English.  If 
to  love  them  is  a  crime,  I  am  more  guilty  than  he.  My  father 
has  Avritten  a  most  touching  novel  in  60  pages.  It  is  in 
consequence  of  my  challenge  to  him  in  writing  "  Delphine." 
This  novel  will  be  printed  anonymously  in  the  Bibliotheque 
britannique,  and  I  will  send  it  to  Lady  Charlotte.  Make 
Lady  Charlotte  like  me  a  little.  I  never  see  an  Englishman 
without  speaking  of  her.  I  spent  yesterday  at  Lady  Bever- 
ley's. She  is  pleased  at  the  thought  of  seeing  Mr.  Percy 
again.  Ah,  I  can't  console  myself  for  your  escape.  I  should 
have  been  such  a  kind  gaoler  !  Farewell ;  Albertine  is  always 
talking  of  you. 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

le  15  8*",  St.  Brice,  pres  de  Paris. 

Je  remets  a  Lady  Donagald,  une  personne  que 
j'ai  trouvee  bien  aimable  d'esprit  et  bien  dis- 
tinguee  de  caractere,  un  petit  mot  pour  vous. 
Depuis  Berlin  je  ne  sais  rien  de  vous  que  par  ]VF 
de  Saussure,  qui  m'a  mande  que  vous  lui  aviez 

ecrit  d' en  vous  enibarquant.     Ma  position 

ici  est  fort  triste ;  mes  amis  y  sont  parfaits  pour 
moi,  mais  le  1'^''  C,  a  beaucoup  dit  ce  que  vous 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  623 

croyiez  qu'il  nc  dirait  pas,  et  je  ne  regarde  pas 
comme  possible  pour  moi  de  passer  I'hyver 
paisiblement  a  Paris.  Cette  impossibilite  m'eut 
ete  fort  douce  si  j'avais  du  vous  rctrouver  en 
Allemagne,  mais  je  traverserai  le  Rhin  avec 
tristesse  n'ayant  pas  cette  perspective.  Ecrivez 
moi  sous  I'enveloppe  de  M""  Recamier,  banquier  a 
Paris.  Je  suis  a  demeure  en  ee  moment  chez  son 
angclique  epouse,  et  j'y  vois  M""  Green,  avec  qui 
je  parle  de  vous.  Je  vous  dirais  de  bien  bon 
coeur  combien  je  vous  conserve  d'amitie  tendre, 
si  je  n'etais  pas  affligee  de  n'avoir  pas  de  vos 
nouvelles. 

Faites  parvenir  cette  lettre,  je  vous  prie. 

(Addressed)     To  right  honourable 

Lord  John  Campbell, 

Inveraray, 

N.B. 

[Translation.] 

15th  Oct.,  St.  Brice,  near  Paris. 

I  sent  a  little  word  for  you  to  Lady  Donagald,  a  person 
whom  I  found  to  possess  a  very  amiable  spirit  and  a  very 
distinguished  character.  Since  you  were  at  Berlin  I  have 
not  heard  anything  of  you  except  through  M.  de  Saussure,  who 

informed  me  tliat  you  had  written  to  him  from as  you 

were  embarking.  My  position  here  is  a  very  sad  one.  My 
friends  here  are  all  I  could  desire,  but  the  First  Consul  has 
said  much  you  would  never  believe  he  could  have  said,  and 
I  do  not  consider  it  possible  for  me  to  pass  the  winter  in 
peace  at  Paris.  The  impossibility  would  have  been  very 
pleasant  for  me  could  I  have  found  you  again  in  Germany, 
but  I  shall  cross  the  Rhine  in  sadness  as  I  have  no  such 
prospect.  Write  to  me  under  cover  to  M.  Recamier,  banker 
at  Paris.  I  am  staying  at  present  with  his  angelic  wife, 
and  I  see  Mr.  Green,  with  whom  I  talk  about  you.  I  would 
tell  you  with  my  whole  heart  what  a  tender  friendship  I 
cherish  for  you,  if  I  were  not  in  affliction  because  I  have  no 
tidings  of  you. 

Pray  see  that  the  enclosed  letter  arrives  at  its  destination. 


624     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 


Madame  de  Stael  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

YvERDUN  d  minuit,  jeudi. 

Vous  croirez,  my  dear  Lord,  en  voyant  arriver 
ce  courier  qu'il  vous  apporte  de  grandes  nou- 
velles.  Point  du  tout,  mais  je  ne  pouvais  vous 
ecrire  par  la  poste  et  je  voulais  vous  ecrire  a 
Bernes.  M"^  de  la  Chaise  ne  sera  a  Zurich  que 
vendredi,  et  elle  voudrait  trouver  un  mot  de 
vous  au  Faucon  mercredi  soir  qui  lui  dit  si  elle 
pourrait  par  hasard  y  trouver  M'"  Robertson, 
parce  qu'elle  continuerait  sa  route  de  la  avec 
lui  jusqu'a  Zurich,  et  renverrait  son  frere  et  sa 
soeur.  J'ai  done  eu  I'idee  que  peut-etre  j\r  Robert- 
son pourrait  vous  laisser  aller  seul  a  Lucerne  et 
suivre  le  projet  de  Copet,  ou  je  lui  remettrais 
lettres  et  nouvelles  pour  vous  s'il  y  en  avait. 
Voyez  si  ce  projet,  qui  m'a  seduit,  est  bon.  Je 
croirai  toujours  ce  que  vous  deciderez  meilleur  que 
ce  que  je  propose.  Vous  m'avez  profondement 
convaincue  que  personne  ne  vous  surpassait  en 
delicatesse  et  en  bonte,  et  je  me  mets  moi-meme 
au  nombre  de  ceux  qui  valent  moins  que  vous. 

II  reste  peu  d'espoir  de  paix ;  cependant  il  ne 
parait  pas  que  le  courier  russe  soit  encor  revenu 
de  Londres.  M"*"  la  Chaise  a  re^u  une  lettre 
d'Ecosse  du  17  juin,  par  la  France,  de  M"''  Moire 
(je  crois),  qui  lui  dit  que  le  Due  d' Argyll  se  porte 
tres  bien,  qu'il  vous  salt  echappe  et  vous  attend. 
Cette  lettre  aussi  rassure  sur  la  crainte  que  la  lille 
de  Lady  Augusta  ne  la  quitte.  On  dit  beaucoup 
qu'il  ne  faut  pas  I'embarquer  a  Kiel,  mais  a 
Embden,  qui  est  encor  libre.  On  pretend  que  les 
corsaires  fran^ais  penetrent  dans  le  canal  de 
Kiel.  Ah,  quelle  douleur  que  ce  voyage  !  Pense 
qu'une  lettre  d'Ecosse  est  arrivee  en  12  jours,  et 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  625 

vous,  vous  serez  six  semaines.  C'est  cc  qui  me 
fait  encor  plus  desirer  que  vous  ralentissiez 
votre  route.  II  y  a  des  signes  qui  pourraient  faire 
esperer  que  le  1"  C.  s'appaise.  Les  Anglais  de 
Geneve  ne  vont  pas  a  Verdun  ;  au  contraire,  on 
a  permis  a  deux  families  anglaises  de  Fontaine- 
bleau  de  venir  a  Geneve.  On  dit  qu'en  arrivant 
a  St.  Dominique  la  brigade  helvetique  et  la 
brigade  polonaise  se  sont  joints  aux  negres.  On 
dit  que  les  Anglais  vont  occuper  la  Sardaignc. 

J'ai  su  tout  cela  chez  M"^  la  Chaise,  oii  je  me 
suis  arretee  avec  un  coeur  tellement  serre  que  je 
pouvais  a  peine  respirer.  J'ai  eu  pour  la  premiere 
fois  de  ma  vie  une  palpitation  de  coeur  en  m'cloi- 
gnant  de  Neufchatel.  Je  voudrais  bien,  my  dear 
Lord,  vous  en  avoir  gueri  en  les  prenant.  J'ai 
trouve  MacCuUoch  en  avant  de  S^  Aubin.  Quel 
mauvais  moment  pour  revoir  que  celui  ou  Ton 
vous  a  quitte  !  Je  crois  que  je  Ic  laisserai  bientot 
rctourner  in  Fifeshire.  J'ai  un  dcgout  de  toute 
autre  societe  que  la  votre  a  vous  deux  qui  ne 
vaut  rien  pour  mon  bonheur.  Je  serai  bien  aise 
si  vous  m'envoyez  Robertson  pour  ces  deux 
jours,  mais  je  penserai  sans  cesse  a  vous  en 
causant  avec  lui.  Jamais,  jamais,  si  vous  vous 
souvenez  de  moi,  je  ne  cesserai  de  vous  aimer. 

J'ai  reyu  a  Yverdun  une  lettre  superbe  sur 
Delphine  et  moi,  ecrite  par  un  homme  tres 
connu  a  Paris.  J'etais  tentce  de  vous  rcnvoyer 
pour  vous  obliger  a  lire  mes  louanges,  mais  j'ai 
reflechi  que  vous  deviez  m'aimer  parce  que  je 
vous  aime,  et  que  je  ne  vous  en  donnerais  pas 
d'autres  motifs.  Adieu,  my  dear  Lord  ;  je  suis 
malade  et  triste,  Augustc  aussi ;  je  ne  sais  ce  que 
je  vais  faire  to  support  my  self.  Adieu  ;  n'oubliez 
pas  qu'il  faut  que  M"*^  la  Chaise  trouve  au  Faucon 
une  petite  lettre  qui  lui   disc  s'il   faut  qu'elle 


626      INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

continue  sa  route  avec  son  frere  et  sa  soeur, 
ou  si  M""  Robertson  la  prendra  la  jeudi  matin. 
Adieu  encor ;  nion  ecriture  doit  etre  plus  inlisible 
que  jamais — je  pleure  et  je  vous  embrasse. 

(Addressed)     a  My  Lord 

John    Campbell 

au  Faucon 

a  Bernes. 

[Translation.] 

YvERDUN  at  midnight,  Thursday. 

You  will  suppose,  my  dear  Lord,  on  seeing  this  courier 
arrive,  that  he  brings  you  important  news.  Not  at  all,  but 
I  could  not  write  to  you  by  the  post  and  wanted  to  write 
to  you  at  Berne.  Mile,  de  la  Chaise  will  not  be  at  Zurich 
till  Friday,  and  she  would  like  to  find  a  word  from  you  at 
the  Falcon  on  Wednesdaj'  evening,  telling  her  if  by  chance 
Mr.  Robertson  is  there,  so  that  she  could  continue  her  journey 
to  Zurich  with  him  and  send  back  her  brother  and  sister. 
The  idea  then  occurred  to  me  that  perhaps  Mr.  Robertson 
might  let  you  go  on  alone  to  Lucerne,  and  himself  come  to 
Coppet,  where  I  would  give  him  any  letters  and  news  there 
might  be  for  you.  This  plan  pleases  me  :  do  you  consider 
it  a  good  one  ?  I  always  consider  your  decisions  better 
than  anything  I  propose.  You  have  deeply  convinced  me 
that  no  one  surpasses  you  in  tact  and  kindness,  and  I  class 
myself  among  the  number  of  those  who  are  below  you  in 
worth. 

Little  hope  remains  of  peace  ;  however,  it  does  not  appear 
that  the  Russian  courier  has  yet  returned  from  London. 
Mile,  de  la  Chaise  has  received,  via  France,  a  letter  from 
Scotland  of  the  17th  June,  from  Miss  Moore  (I  believe), 
mentioning  that  the  Duke  of  Argyll  is  well,  knows  you  have 
escaped,  and  expects  you.  This  letter  is  also  reassuring  as 
to  the  fear  of  Lady  Augusta's  daughter  leaving  her.  Every 
one  says  one  should  not  embark  at  Kiel,  but  at  Embden, 
which  is  still  free.  It  is  rumoured  that  French  cruisers 
penetrate  into  the  Kiel  Canal.  Ah,  what  a  sorrow  this 
voyage  is  !  Just  think,  a  letter  from  Scotland  comes  in 
twelve  days  and  you  will  be  six  weeks  on  the  journey.  This 
m^akes  me  mjore  than  ever  hope  you  will  delay.     There  are 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  G27 

signs  that  the  First  Consul  may  relent.  The  English  of 
Geneva  are  not  being  sent  to  Verdun  ;  on  the  contrary, 
two  English  families  from  Fontainebleau  have  been  allowed 
to  come  to  Geneva.  It  is  said  that  the  Swiss  brigade  and 
the  Polish  brigade  joined  the  negroes  on  arriving  at  San 
Domingo  [from  the  West  Indies].  An  English  occupation 
of  Sardinia  is  announced. 

I  learnt  all  this  when  with  Mile,  de  la  Chaise,  at  whose 
place  I  arrived  with  a  heart  so  oppressed  that  I  could  scarcely 
breathe.  For  the  first  time  in  my  life  I  had  palpitations 
of  the  heart  on  leaving  Neufchatel  behind  me.  Ah,  my 
dear  Lord,  if  I  could  only  have  cured  you  by  having  them  ! 
I  found  McCulloch  near  St.  Aubin  :  what  an  inauspicious 
moment  after  just  leaving  you  !  I  tliink  I  shall  soon  let 
him  return  to  Fifeshire.  I  have  such  a  distaste  for  any 
other  society  than  yours,  the  pair  of  you,  as  augurs  ill  for 
my  happiness.  I  shall  be  very  glad  if  you  can  send  me 
Robertson  for  these  two  days,  but  I  shall  think  without 
ceasing  of  you  while  I  talk  to  him.  Never,  never,  while 
you  remember  me  shall  I  cease  to  love  you. 

While  at  Yverdun  I  received  a  splendid  letter  about 
"  Delphine  "  and  myself,  written  by  a  wcll-knowTi  Parisian. 
I  was  tempted  to  send  it  you  to  force  you  to  read  these  praises 
of  me,  but  reflected  that  you  ought  to  love  me  because  I 
love  you,  and  that  I  would  give  you  no  other  motives. 
Adieu,  my  dear  Lord  ;  I  am  ill  and  sad,  as  is  Auguste  also. 
I  do  not  know  what  I  shall  do  to  support  myself.  Adieu  ; 
do  not  forget  that  Mile,  de  la  Chaise  should  find  at  the  Falcon 
a  note  telling  her  if  she  should  continue  her  journey  with 
her  brother  and  sister,  or  if  Mr.  Robertson  will  take  charge 
of  her  there  on  Thursday  morning.  Once  again  adieu ; 
my  handwriting  must  be  more  illegible  than  ever — I  weep, 
and  I  embrace  you. 


From  Madame  de  Stael. 

Veimar,  h  2  Janvier,  1804. 

Comment  se  fait-il,  mon  cher  Robert,  que  tout 
le  monde  m'ecrive  d'Angleterre  excepte  vous  ? 
et  cependant  c'est  vous  qui  avcz  decide  de  mon 
voyage.     Je  serai  a  }3er)in  dans  trois  semaines. 


628     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Si  vous  me  promettez  d'y  venir  je  vous  y  atten- 
drai ;  mais  arrivez  done  le  plutot  possible.  Je 
vous  avois  eerit  dans  une  sorte  de  mauvaise 
disposition  que  je  repartirois  au  mois  d'avril ; 
si  vous  venez  je  ne  repartirai  pas,  ou  du  moins 
nous  ferons  quelque  autre  projet  ensemble.  Mais 
songez  que  Berlin  est  desert  au  mois  d'Avril, 
et  qu'on  ne  concevroit  pas  pourquoi  j'y  reste. 
Nous  pourrions  aller  ensemble  a  Vienne.  IMais 
que  dis-je  avec  tous  mes  projets  ?  M'aimez 
vous  encor  ?  et  faut-il  que  je  signe  mon  nom, 
pour  vous  rappellcr  et  vos  promesses  et  le  senti- 
ment qui  ne  s'est  point  affaibli  dans  mon  coeur  ? 

Repondez  moi  sous  I'adresse  de  M'"  Jaekson  a 
Berlin. 

M'"  Paget  revient  a  Vienne  et  passe  par  Berlin, 
a  ce  qu'on  m'assure.  II  y  a  un  mariage  a  Berlin 
qui  amenne  de  grandes  fetes  jusqu'au  15  fevrier 
prochain.  Je  sais  bien  que  les  fetes  ne  vous 
decident  pas,  mais  n'est-ce  pas  une  bonne  raison 
a  donner  ? 

[Translation.] 

Weimab,  2  Jan.   1804. 

How  is  it,  m}'  dear  Robert,  that  everybody  in  England 
writes  to  me  except  you  ?  and  it's  on  your  account  I  have 
undertaken  tliis  journey.  I  sliall  be  at  Berhn  in  three  weeks. 
If  you  promise  to  come,  I  will  wait  for  you,  but  come  as 
early  as  you  can.  I  told  you  in  a  cross  mood  that  I  should 
leave  in  April.  If  you  come  I  won't  go,  or  at  any  rate 
■we  will  fix  some  plan.  Don't  forget  that  Berlin  is  a  desert 
in  April,  and  that  no  one  would  understand  Avhy  I  remained 
there.  We  could  go  to  Vienna  together.  But  why  do  I 
talk  like  this  ?  Do  3'ou  still  care  for  me  ?  and  must  I  sign 
my  name  to  recall  to  you  your  promises  and  the  sentiment 
which  is  not  dead  in  my  heart  ? 

Answer  me  care  of  Mr.  Jackson  at  Berlin. 

Mr.  Paget  returns  to  Vienna  and  goes,  through  Berlin,  they 
tell  me.    There  will  be  a  marriage  at  Berlin  which  will  bp 


^lADAME    DE    STAEL  629 

tlie  occasion  of  big  fetes  till  15  February  next,     I  know  that 
will  not  attract  you,  but  it  will  be  a  good  excuse  to  offer. 


Madame  de  Sta'el  to  Lord  John  Campbell. 

Geneve,  17  avn7  [1804?]. 

Je  ne  puis  cesser,  my  dear  Lord,  de  m'interesser 
a  vous,  et  je  suis  persuadee  que  ce  sentiment  me 
ramennera  pres  de  vous  dans  un  terns  quelconque. 
Je  menne  toujours  une  vie  errante  sous  le  poids 
de  I'exil,  et  mes  affaires  de  fortune  ne  sont  pas 
plus  avancees  que  le  l"""  jour  de  ma  reclamation, 
mais  en  attendant  les  affaires  de  I'Europe 
avancent  beaucoup  plus  que  celles  des  particu- 
liers.  Ecrivez  moi  toujours  a  Coppet ;  c'est  de  la 
que  vos  lettres  me  parviendront  surement.  Dites 
moi  des  nouvelles  de  votre  bonheur ;  a  travers 
toutes  les  armees  ces  nouvelles  la  peuvent 
m'arriver.  Je  n'ai  pas  un  mot  de  Robertson 
depuis  son  mariage :  je  trouve  cela  un  grand 
tort  de  caractere ;  je  ne  laisserois  jamais  une 
amitie  veritable  perir  ainsi  dans  le  fond  de  mon 
coeur.  Mes  enfants  se  portent  bien  :  I'aine  est  en 
France,  ou  je  vais  le  voir  a  40  lieus  de  Paris,  car 
il  ne  m'est  pas  permis  d'en  approcher  davantage  ; 
les  deux  autres  sont  avec  moi.  Albertine  dit 
quelquefois  quand  quelqu'un  lui  plait,  II  res- 
semble  a  Lord  John,  mais  elle  vous  est  un  peu 
infidele  ;  quand  elle  vous  reverra  elle  vous  aimera 
de  nouveau,  car  vous  avez  eminemment  ce  qui 
fait  aimer.  Souvenez  vous  de  moi,  my  dear  Lord, 
et  tachez  que  nous  retournions  une  fois  dans  ce 
monde  a  I'lsle  S'  Pierre. 

{Addressed)     pour  Lord  John  Campbell. 


C30     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

[Translation.] 

Geneva,   17  April  [1804?]. 

I  cannot  cease,  my  dear  Lord,  to  interest  myself  in  you, 
and  am  persuaded  that  this  sentiment  will  bring  me  to  you 
at  some  time  or  another.  I  continue  to  lead  a  wandering 
life  under  the  burden  of  exile,  and  in  the  matter  of  my  for- 
tune things  have  advanced  no  further  than  on  the  first  day 
of  my  claim,  but  meantime  the  affairs  of  Europe  advance 
quicker  than  those  of  individuals.  Always  write  to  me  at 
Coppet :  letters  will  reach  me  that  way  most  surely.  Give 
me  some  good  news  ;  such  news  may  reach  me  through 
all  the  armies  between.  I  have  not  had  a  line  from  Robert- 
son since  his  marriage.  I  find  this  a  defect  in  his  character  ; 
I  would  never  let  a  true  friendship  perish  thus  in  the  depth 
of  my  heart.  My  children  are  well  :  the  eldest  is  in  France, 
where  I  visit  him  at  40  leagues'  distance  from  Paris,  for  I 
am  not  allowed  to  go  any  nearer  ;  the  two  others  are  with 
me.  Albertine  says  sometimes  when  she  likes  any  one  that 
he  resembles  Lord  John,  but  she  is  not  very  faithful  to  you  ; 
when  she  sees  you  once  more  her  love  for  you  will  revive, 
for  you  are  eminently  made  to  be  liked.  Remember  me, 
my  dear  Lord,  and  try  that  we  may  return  once  again  in 
this  life  to  the  Isle  St.  Pierre. 


(Cover)     fo  Enquen. 

To  the  right  Hon^'« 

Lord  Jhon  Campbell,  to  the  care 
of  Mess.  Harris,  Farquhar  &  Co. 
Bankers,  St.  James  Street. 

Chanson  des  Paysans  Suisses.     Pour  Lord  John 
Campbell  de  la  part  de  Mine,  de  StaeL 

1.     J'ai  bien  passe  en  tout  six  mois 
Dans  la  ville  de  Genes  ; 
J'y  vivois  content  comme  un  Roi, 
Ayant  ma  mie  aupres  de  moi 
Sur  le  bord  d'une  fontaine.     {his.) 


MADAME    DE    STAEL  G31 

2.  Un  jour  fa  fillette  en  pleurant 
S'en  vint  dire  a  sa  mere : 
Mere,  donnez-moi  un  amant  ; 
Je  I'aimerai  bien  tcndrement, 
Comme  vous  aimez  mon  pere.     {bis.) 

3.  Ah,  ma  fille,  a  quoi  pensez-vous  ? 
C'est  un  soldat  de  guerre. 

Ah,  nous  n'avons  que  toi  d'enfant ; 
Nous  te  marierons  ricliement, 
Nous  te  ferons  Demoiselle,     (bis.) 

4.  Maman,  mon  coeur  n'est  point  touche 
De  toutes  vos  richesses. 

Ah,  j'aime  mieux  mon  grenadier, 

Qui  a  pour  moi  tant  d'amitie, 

Mon  vaillant  soldat  de  guerre,     (bis.) 

5.  II  faut  ecrire  au  General, 
Au  General  d'armee. 

Si  le  General  y  eonsent, 

Aussi  bien  que  tons  vos  parents. 

Nous  vous  marierons,  ma  fille.     (bis.) 

6.  Le  General  est  arrive. 

II  y  a  bien  d'autres  nouvelles  encore  : 
La  guerre  est  declaree  partout ; 
Les  grenadiers  partiront  tous. 
Adieu  la  ville  de  Genes,     (bis.) 

7.  Adieu  I'objet  de  mes  amours. 
Adieu  celle  que  j'aime. 
Nous  irons  tous  en  garnison 
En  Italie  ou  en  Picmont. 
Adieu  la  jeune  fillette. 


LETTERS  FROM  LORD  JOHN  CAMPBELL 
TO  MISS  GLASSELL,  WITH  HER  LET- 
TERS FROM  THE  CONTINENT,  ETC. 

JMrs,  Ch'ant  *  to  Miss  Glassell  on  Lord  John 
CampbelVs  character. 

My  dear  Miss  Glassell, 

I  am  sorry  to  find  I  cannot  see  you  this 
morning,  having  more  than  a  hundred  things 
to  do,  but  if  you  are  at  home  in  the  afternoon 
(which  I  think  would  be  still  a  wise  measure) 
I  will  come  as  soon  as  we  are  done  of  dinner, 
viz.  half-past  five,  and  stay  as  long  as  I  can,  or 
you  may  wish  to  have  me. 

I  cannot  say  how  much  I  was  gratified  by 
what  you  shewed  me  last  night,  for  besides  the 
pleasure  of  having  the  veil  withdrawn  from  a 
Mind  whose  hidden  stores  are  so  carefully  con- 
cealed from  the  general  eye,  it  affords  me  the 
most  certain  conviction  of  your  happiness, 
where  there  exists  so  much  both  to  satisfy  the 
intellect  and  to  rivet  Affection. 

Having  a  great  belief  in  glamorification  (if  I 
may  borrow  his  own  word),  you  might  have 
preached  to  me  for  a  century  about  his  perfec- 
tions, without  bringing  the  conviction  to  my 
mind,  which  one  page  of  those  beautiful  letters 
has    indelibly    fixed    upon    my    memory.     You 

*  The  author. 
632 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  033 

must  not  be  angry  with  me  for  saying  this,  for 
you  must  yourself  allow  that  there  may  be  such 
a  thing  as  delivers  a  fascination  of  manner,  to 
which  many  poor  victims  have  fallen  a  sacrifice, 
and  awakened  too  late  from  their  dream  of  per- 
fection, to  the  dreary  void  left  by  misplaced 
attachment.  In  this  instance  I  am  rejoiced  to 
say  that  I  feel  perfectly  satisfied,  for  in  those 
letters,  written  in  no  assumed  character,  I  see 
a  Mind  laid  open,  of  all  others  the  most  fitted  to 
gain  and  secure  an  ardent  attachment.  That 
delightful  combination  of  deep  feeling,  unosten- 
tatious affection,  and  playful  fancy,  who  would 
not  prefer  to  the  tinsel  and  glitter  which  catch 
the  crowd,  and  which  on  the  crowd  alone  depend 
for  gratification. 

His  very  shyness,  I  think,  will  form  an  element 
of  your  happiness,  as  it  secures  to  yourself  those 
delightful  qualities  which  have  hitherto  "  wasted 
their  sweetness  on  the  desert  air  "  literally,  for 
surely,  with  the  exception  of  one  person  whose 
mind  he  himself  formed,  he  has  not  lived  among 
those  best  qualified  to  appreciate  or  enjoy  the 
higher  tones  of  such  a  Mind.  You  know  I  am 
no  flatterer,  you  have  never  found  me  so,  and 
even  on  this  occasion  I  might  have  been  back- 
ward in  offering  the  incense  which  I  know  to 
be  more  acceptable  to  you  than  any  other ;  but 
I  will  confess  that  I  have  been  prejudiced, 
though  not  to  the  same  extent  you  may  suppose, 
and  think  it  justice,  not  compliment,  to  say  that 
I  feel  as  if  I  had  a  bandage  taken  from  my  eyes. 

Now,  my  dear  Miss  Glasscll,  you  had  better 
burn  this,  for  fear  it  should  rise  up  in  judgment 
against  you,  and  his  Lordship  add  another 
instance  to  the  number  of  Men  tried  for  the 
murder  of  their  Wives,  a  consequence  you  seem 

VOL.  II.  20 


634     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

to  think  would  follow  any  discourses   on  this 
subject. 

Adieu,  believe  me  always  and  affectly.  yours, 

M.  Grant. 


Lord  John  Campbell  to  his  future  Wife, 
Joan  Glassell. 

November  Uth,   1818. 

Dear  Miss  Glassell, 

I  wrote  to  you  from  Riddlehowhope  on 
my  way  from  Harrogate  to  thank  you  for  the 
writing-case  and  all  the  nice  things  it  contained, 
and  I  meant  to  have  written  to  you  from  In- 
veraray, but  I  found  that  both  Augusta  and 
Miss  Hamilton  were  writing  such  long  Letters 
to  you  that  my  account  would  be  quite  unneces- 
sary. The  only  novelty  was  Sinclair's  singing, 
which  was  really  charming,  and  we  had  one 
night  at  the  Castle  when  he  sang  all  the  Evening 
with  Miss  Hamilton,  and  charmed  mv  Ears  more 
than  they  have  been  for  many  a  long  day.  My 
Friends  the  Stirlings  did  not  come,  being  pre- 
vented by  the  illness  of  the  Brother,  who  has 
been  very  nearly  dead  of  a  Rhumatick  Fever ; 
but  their  place  was  supplied  as  far  as  ornament 
was  concerned  b}^  Miss  Logan  and  her  Sister. 
The  MacLeans  of  Coll  did  not  arrive,  being 
detained  by  contrary  Winds  in  Mull.  Donald 
Knock  was  there,  and  I  was  delighted  to  have 
it  in  my  power,  by  making  Interest  with  Mr. 
Selkrig,  to  be  of  some  use  to  his  Sister,  who 
wants  a  Farm  of  my  Brother's  in  JNIull. 

Donald  Knock  has  just  done  a  thing  that 
I  believe  there  is  not  another  man  in  the 
Kingdom  would  do.  His  cousin  INIr.  Campbell 
of   Braghen   died   the    other  day,    and   he   was 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  635 

Heir  of  Entail  to  all  his  landed  Property, 
about  5  or  GOO  a  year,  Braghen  having  only 
two  Daughters,  children  about  0  or  7  years  old. 
Donald  immediately  took  steps  to  set  aside  the 
Entail  in  his  own  favour,  and  settled  the  whole 
of  the  Property  on  the  Daughters  in  Succession, 
with  this  only  proviso,  that  whoever  marries  the 
Eldest  or  the  one  in  possession  of  the  Estate 
should  take  the  name  of  Campbell  of  Braghen. 
There  is  a  proper  sort  of  a  man  now,  and  you 
are  just  the  person  to  appreciate  the  Merit  of 
such  Conduct,  so  I  thought  you  would  like  to 
hear  it,  or  rather  read  it. 

When  Donald  was  at  Inveraray  he  shewed  us 
a  curious  Brooch,  which  he  was  then  taking  to 
his  Cousin  Braghen,  whose  property  it  was,  said 
to  have  been  worn  by  Robert  Bruce,  and  taken 
from  his  Person  in  a  Skirmish  by  one  of  the 
Macdougalls  of  Dunolly,  and  taken  from  that 
harth  when  it  was  burned  by  the  Campbells, 
ancestors  of  Donald's  and  Braghen's ;  and  they 
keep  it  a  Secret  still  from  the  Macdougalls,  lest 
they  should  claim  and  obtain  it  now  that  Law 
is  as  much  respected  as  force  used  to  be,  so  if 
you  meet  a  Macdougall  do  not  mention  it  to 
him.  It  is  a  very  large  Silver  Brooch  with  long 
Silver  Spikes  sticking  up  from  the  plate,  with 
Pearls  set  in  the  top  of  each  spike,  and  a  large 
Christal  set  in  the  middle,  of  no  great  value,  but 
which  might  have  been  tliought  so  long  ago.  I 
wished  you  had  been  at  Inveraray  to  see  it. 

I  was  so  bothered  when  at  Inveraray  that  I 
had  not  time  to  go  an  oak- trimming,  but  as  soon 
as  I  go  back,  which  I  do  in  a  few  days,  I  shall 
remember  the  one  near  the  Inn.  The  Duke  and 
D'^  and  Lady  Augusta  Paget  are  expected  to 
Dinner  here  this  Day,  and  after  staying  two  days 


636     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

at  Roseneath  will  go  on  to  Inveraray,  where  they 
are  to  stay  two  Months,  and  then  one  at  Rose- 
neath before  they  go  to  London.  Miss  Hamilton 
is  still  with  me  here,  and  by-the-bye  my  going 
to  Inveraray  with  his  Grace  depends  upon  his 
asking  her,  for  I  cannot  of  course  go  and  leave 
her.  Bessie  Mure  is  also  here  at  present,  but  she 
goes  to  Edinburgh  on  Monday  or  Tuesday  next. 
I  had  a  letter  yesterday  from  Mr.  Smith  from 
Lausanne,  which  thank  him  for,  and  tell  him 
as  I  am  writing  to  you  I  shall  not  put  him 
to  the  expence  of  an  answer  this  time,  merely 
to  tell  him  the  same  news  I  have  told  you.  I 
hope,  however,  if  you  keep  your  resolution  of 
not  writing,  that  he  will  continue  to  write  to 
me,  for  I  am  sure  none  of  you  have  any  Friends 
more  sincerely  Interested  about  your  proceed- 
ings than  all  here.  I  have  often  heard  you  say 
you  liked  to  be  missed,  and  I  am  sure  you  would 
have  been  highly  gratified  if  you  had  seen  how 
every  body  asked  about  you  at  Inveraray  and 
how  very  much  you  were  missed  by  us  all. 
Perhaps  I  have  done  wrong  in  writing  this 
Letter  to  you  after  what  you  said  in  the  Last 
you  wrote  to  me,  but  in  the  one  I  wrote  to  you 
from  Riddlehowhope  I  told  you  that,  if  you 
really  wished  me  to  write  no  more  to  you,  you 
must  say  so  in  so  many  words  and  then  I  would 
plague  you  no  more,  so  I  shall  obey  your  Com- 
mands whatever  they  may  be ;  and  now  I  shall 
bid  you  Farewell,  my  Dear  Miss  Glassell,  begging 
you  to  believe  me  always 

Your  Sincere  and  affectionate  Friend, 

J.  D.  Campbell. 

I  saw  Mrs.  Has  wall  at  Inveraray,  and  we  had 
a  long  crack  about  you.     She  is  so  fond  of  you. 


LORD    JOHN    CAMPBELL  637 

Lord  John  Campbell  to  Mr.  Smith. 

ARDiNCArLE,  November  21th,   1818. 

My  dear  Sir, 

I  have  to  thank  you  now  for  two  Letters 
unanswered,  the  hist  one  reeeived  this  day  from 
Genoa.  To  your  former  one  I  answered  by  a 
Letter  to  Miss  Glassell,  whieh  I  hope  she  has 
reeeived.  I  addressed  it,  like  this  one,  to  Rome. 
Truly  I  envy  you  mueh  your  travels  and  Sojourn 
in  Italy,  but  as  I  did  not  aecompany  Landen 
and  McBean  or  go  with  you,  I  shall  never  now 
be  tempted,  I  think,  to  go  so  far  from  Home. 
It  is  most  provoking  to  have  missed  Mr.  Landen 
by  two  days. 

The  Duke  passed  here  last  week,  and  went  to 
Inveraray,  and  I  follow  him  there  to-morrow,  with 
George  Cunynghame,  our  old  happy  Shipmate^  who 
is  now  with  me  and  begs  to  be  remembered  to  you 
and  your  companions.  Lady  Augusta  and  Miss 
Hamilton  are  gone  to  Inveraray,  to  remain,  I 
believe,  with  the  Duke  as  long  as  he  stays  there ; 
but  he  talks  of  going  to  London  in  two  or  three 
Months,  and  now  the  Death  of  the  Queen  will 
assemble  the  Parliament  on  the  14th  day  of 
January,  which,  tho  he  does  not  do  much  Parlia- 
mentary business,  may  by  various  contingent 
and  remote  Influences  cause  His  Grace  to  go 
there  sooner  than  he  intended.  When  he  was 
here  I  spoke  to  him  about  your  retaining  the 
House  as  long  as  possible,  and  he  said  of  course 
that  you  was  most  welcome  to  remain  till  the 
last  moment  that  you  could  be  comfortable 
there,  and  I  do  not  at  present  see  much  proba- 
bility of  his  very  soon  carrjdng  on  his  proposed 


638     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

improvements  in  that  quarter.  Truly  I  am 
quite  aware  of  your  cut  at  my  Turning  apparatus. 
The  Lathe  you  describe  I  know  very  well,  and 
it  requires  a  good  deal  of  practice  to  turn  at  it, 
as  the  Tool  must  be  retired  when  the  work  is 
turned  upwards,  and  advanced  only  when  it 
descends.  I  have  often  seen  it  done,  but  I  am 
at  loss  to  guess  how  the  ornamental  work  is 
executed  upon  it. 

I  have  not  made  any  progress  in  Ballooning, 
indeed  I  am  quite  lost  for  want  of  an  assistant, 
and  so  constantly  interrupted  by  other  things 
that  I  have  scarcely  given  it  a  thought  since 
my  return  from  Harrogate.  Sir  George  Bayley 
writes  to  me  that  his  Experiments  are  also  at  a 
stand  for  want  of  some  well-executed  valves, 
which  he  has  not  workmen  near  him  to  execute, 
but  that  he  hopes  soon  to  send  me  the  result 
of  some  experiments  with  the  Balloon  I  got 
constructed  in  London. 

I  have  not  been  at  Roseneath  for  a  long  time, 
but  from  the  Top  of  the  Hill  here  I  have  always 
seen  what  I  suppose  is  your  Cutter  quite  safe 
at  her  Moorings  ;  indeed  we  have  had  no  storms 
this  year,  and  the  Thermometer  at  my  Window, 
the  North  side  of  the  House,  has  seldom  been 
below  oO""  at  Night — warm  enough,  I  think,  for 
November,  but  you  will  be  all  so  spoiled  by  the 
clear  sky  and  heat  of  Italy  that  you  will  never 
be  contented  with  the  clouds  and  the  Hills  (for 
after  those  you  have  been  looking  at  I  must  not 
call  them  Mountains)  of  Scotland.  Neverthe- 
less I  shall  enjoy  my  ignorance,  or  at  least  my 
forgetfullness,  to-morrow  in  riding  through  Glen- 
crae  and  imagining  Myself  among  Mountains, 


MISS    GLASSELL  639 

Miss  Glassell  to  Mrs.  H,  F.  Cadell. 

CoMO,  November  1st  [1818]. 

My  dear  Janet, 

I  cither  sent  a  letter  to  you  or  it  was 
lost  after  being  written  from  Geneva,  for  here 
letters  I  do  think  run  a  great  risk  of  being  lost, 
as  we  pay  the  Inland  postage,  whieh  can  only  be 
done  at  certain  hours,  and  we  are  often  obliged 
to  leave  the  letters  and  money  to  the  honesty  of 
the  people.  IMy  doubt  about  that  letter  makes 
me  not  know  where  to  begin,  but  in  case  I  must 
tell  you  of  the  glorious  view  that  burst  on  us 
after  the  day's  continued  climbing  up  the  Twin 
Mountains.  At  the  mouth  of  a  tremendous-look- 
ing defile,  many  hundred  feet  below  us,  we  saw 
extended  an  ocean,  not  of  mist  but  beautiful 
clouds.  Beyond  this  magnificent  curtain,  which 
concealed  from  us  the  Lake  and  Plain  of  Geneva, 
rose  the  Alps,  first  a  few  black  summits,  and  far 
above,  blazing  in  unclouded  whiteness,  Mont 
Blanc.  There  is  no  describing  the  feelings  of 
seeing  the  clouds  far,  far  below  us,  and  still 
looking  up  to  the  immeasurable  height  of  Mt. 
Blanc. 

After  spending  two  days  at  Geneva,  and 
admiring  much  its  exquisite  situation  on  the 
Lake,  whose  banks  arc  covered  with  luxuriant 
vineyards.  The  Rhone  runs  through  the  town 
in  two  branches.  Never  was  there  a  poet  so 
nice  to  the  original  in  description  as  Lord  Byron. 
The  "  blue  rushing  of  the  arrowy  Rhone  "  is  so 
perfectly  descriptive  of  it.  Its  rapidity  pre- 
serves its  purity  even  in  flowing  through  a  great 
Town,  and  its  colour  is  as  if  dyed  with  blue. 
We  went  by  Lausanne,  saw  Chillon  and  Clarans 


640     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

(look  at  Lord  Byron's  former  Canto  of  Childe 
Harold).  It  is  vain  indeed  to  describe  the 
enchanting  scenery  in  driving  along  the  Lake. 
Opposite  us  the  Alps  rose  perpendicularly  from 
its  banks.  On  our  side,  down  to  the  very  shore, 
the  most  beautiful  vineyards.  Chateaux,  cot- 
tages and  Spires  on  every  little  bay.  There  are 
beautiful  villages,  all  the  houses  with  trellises 
and  vines ;  the  peasantry  so  delightful-looking, 
and  so  much  kindly  civility  among  them.  There 
has  been  so  much  one  regrets  taking  no  remem- 
brance of  that  I  have  begun  to  attempt  drawing 
a  little.  In  doing  this  I  often  walk  on  before 
others  from  the  slopes  or  up  hills.  It  is  quite  a 
pleasure  to  speak  to  the  people.  None  ever  pass 
without  wishing  you  Good-day.  While  we  con- 
tinued in  the  Cantons  of  Switzerland  they  speak 
good  French,  and  I  get  on  very  well  considering 
w^hat  a  dunce  I  am  at  languages. 

I  never  will  forget  the  beauty  of  the  night  we 
entered  Lausanne,  the  setting  sun  throwing  a  new 
light  on  the  vineyards  and  chestnut  trees  beside 
us,  and  a  purple  shade  on  the  Alps  and  glaciers 
behind  them, — see  what  Lord  Byron  says, 
"  Sunset  into  rose  hues  sees  them  Avrought," — 
the  w^hole  scene  reflected  on  Lake  Leman's 
"  crystal  face."  We  slept  next  night  at  St. 
Maurice,  passing  Chillon,  and  we  saw  the  "  small 
green  isle  "  with  its  trees,  and  light  blew  the 
mountain  breeze, 

"  And  by  it  there  were  waters  flowing, 
And  on  it  there  were  wild  flowers  growing." 

The  Alps  approach  nearer  from  the  end  of  the 
Lake  as  we  follow  up  the  course  of  the  Rhone 
through  a  valley  in  the  scenery  of  which  there 


MISS    GLASSELL  641 

is  endless  beauty  and  variety.  It  is  most 
singular  to  our  eyes,  the  vines  growing  and 
bearing  luxuriantly  at  the  foot  of  hills  on  whose 
heads  the  eternal  snows  are  laying  perpendicular 
above  us.  We  saw  the  traces  of  a  dreadful 
calamity  which  overwhelmed  the  village  of 
Martigni  in  the  Vallais  on  the  16th  of  June  last, 
an  avalanche  having  fallen  down  and  stopt  up 
the  course  of  the  river  (a  small  one  that  came 
down  a  deep  ravine),  which  coming  down  in  an 
instant  swept  away  250  houses  and  much  above 
100  people.  For  a  long  way  the  grass  and  road 
is  quite  torn  up,  and  every  where  round  ruins 
of  houses,  trees  torn  up  of  all  kinds,  from  the 
gigantic  mountain  pine  to  the  fruit  trees  with 
which  the  valley  was  filled,  and  still  is  beyond 
the  track  of  the  desolation.  Our  hostess  told 
us  her  husband  was  suffocated  at  his  own  door. 
She  was  above  stairs  attending  an  English 
family  at  dinner,  who  had  their  carriage  swept 
away  and  dashed  to  pieces. 

We  continued  by  the  Rhone  to  Sion,  the 
Capital  of  the  Vallais,  and  then  to  Brigue, 
where  the  ascent  of  the  Simplon  begins. 
German  and  Goitres  were  all  thro'  the  Vallais 
universal.  You  know  it  is  an  enormous  swelling 
in  the  neck  supposed  to  be  from  the  snow 
water  which  they  drink.  The  Vallaisians  are 
Catholic,  and  more  devout  than  almost  any 
people  in  Europe.  All  along  the  Mountains  we 
saw  beautiful  little  Hermitages  perched  far 
above  where  we  would  have  supposed  human 
foot  would  have  ventured.  There  was  some- 
thing in  the  idea  of  crossing  the  Alps  which 
made  us  arm  ourselves  as  if  for  Siberia. 
Nothing  could  be  more  unnecessary.  About 
half  way  up,   at  a  height  much   greater   than 


642     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

the  top  of  Ben  Nevis,  I   sat  down  to  attempt 
a  sketch  of  the  gigantic  Alp  and  Glacier  before 
me,  along  the  foot  of  which  our  road  wound. 
Before  me  an  abyss  black  with  pines  and  masses 
of  rock  at  the  bottom,  many  hundred  feet  down 
a  torrent  roaring,  and  in  a  distant  opening  the 
valley   of  the   Rhone,   the  Jungfrau,   and   some 
other  Swiss  mountains.     In  such  a  scene  it  was 
curious  to  feel  almost  oppressed  with  heat,  and 
to  be  walking  along  a  road  as  broad,  smooth,  and 
serene  as  that  from  Gladmuir  to  Haddington. 
Thanks   to   Napoleon   the   ascent   is   about   200 
feet  in  the  mile,  and  I  believe  there  are  Refuges 
all  along  where  travellers  find  a  fire  ready  when 
bewildered  in  the  snow.     Some  galleries  are  cut 
through  the  solid  rock,  and  fine  bridges  thrown 
across  gulphs  of  prodigious  depth.     Nothing  was 
more  strange  than  to  go  on  and  see  the  carriages 
creeping  along  below  us  like  snails  on  the  side 
of    this    vast    wall.     Except    in    Lord    Byron's 
IManfred,  w^hich  I  had  on  the  spot,  nothing  I  ever 
saw  conveys  even  a  slight  idea  of  the  terrific 
grandeur  of  Alpine  scenery.    By  a  very  fortunate 
chance   I   saw  one   of   those  beautiful  rainbows 
over  waterfall  which  he  describes  there  too.     It 
looked  doubly  lovely  from   being   close   by  me 
and    seen    contrasted    with    one    of     the    dark 
galleries. 

We  slept  at  Simplon.  A  very  good  Inn  a 
little  beyond  the  summit.  The  last  part,  the 
valley  of  Gondor,  is  the  finest :  only  a  very 
little  sky  seen  above  us,  thousands  of  feet  of 
perpendicular  black  rock  or  shagged  with  pine, 
roaring  waterfalls  dashing  down  the  sides,  and 
above  all  the  sparkling  glaciers  glowing  in  the 
sun,  and  which  for  many  months  in  the  year 
never  reach  the  lower  parts  even  of  this  valley. 


MISS    GLASSELL  643 

One  gallery  is  260  feet  long.  All  along  this 
valley  on  one  side  the  mountains  rise.  Below 
on  the  right  the  river  dashing  over  its  deep 
rocky  bed.  From  all  this  gloom  we  pass  into 
hills  eovered  with  vine,  beautiful  cultivated 
meadows  covered  with  olive,  mulberry,  Indian 
corn.  Slept  that  night  upon  the  banks  of  Lago 
Maggiore,  on  which  stand  on  two  Hands  famous 
marble  palaces  surrounded  by  Orange,  Lemon, 
and  citron,  not  as  shrubs,  but  fine  trees  loaded 
with  ripe  fruit,  hanging  down  to  the  very  waters 
of  the  Lake,  pure  as  crystal  and  reflecting  a  sky 
brighter  than  Ave  ever  see.  Yet  I  love  in  my 
soul  our  own  soft  grey  skies.  No  one  knows  how 
strong  the  love  of  country  is  till  they  feel  the 
recollection  of  home  coming  over  them  like  music 
heard  first  in  happy  days,  when  all  round  is 
gay,  and  rich  and  glorious  beyond  any  thing 
our  own  land  of  brown  heath  and  shaggy  wood 
can  show. 

We  spent  another  day  on  the  Lago  di  Como, 
which  unites  all  the  beauties  of  Highland  and 
Italian  scenery.  In  many  places  the  banks  are 
steep  as  a  Loch,  long  vineyards  climbing  up 
them  on  terraces,  magnificent  palaces  on  the 
banks,  and  the  Lake  covered  with  beautiful 
barques  with  awnings  formed  of  vine  stalks 
and  nicely  fitted  up  with  sofas  and  tables. 
We  went  to  the  Princess  of  Wales'  villa ;  she  is 
near  Rome  now,  and  it  is  for  sale.  The  front 
terrace  rises  from  the  Lake.  The  hill  is  steep 
behind  it,  but  the  view  is  exquisite :  the  Lake, 
wooded  and  vine-clad  hills,  and  the  Alps  rising 
round  in  every  variety  of  form  and  shade. 

We  reached  Milan,  from  which  I  now  write, 
on  Monday.  The  Cathedral  here  is,  next  to 
St.  Peter's,  the  finest  in  the  world.     The  body 


644     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

of  St.  Charles  Borromeo  lays  in  an  open  vault  in 
a  coffin  of  rock-crystal  in  gold.  The  appartment 
is,  one  may  say,  all  of  silver,  gold,  and  stones. 
This  is  his  birthday,  that  was  celebrated  in  great 
pomp,  all  the  numerous  Priests  in  their  splendid 
dresses.  The  Cathedral  can  contain  more  than 
30,000  people,  indeed  nearly  that  must  have  been 
in  it  to-day.  All  this  enormous  pile  is  of  the 
finest  marble,  covered  with  statues.  There  are 
above  1,000  of  them.  The  music  was  very  fine. 
Get  a  sight  from  Robert  of  Eustace's  Tour  and 
Coxe's  Picture  of  Italy.  It  may  amuse  you  to 
trace  us.  I  am  much  hurried  in  this  letter,  as 
we  go  to-morrow  to  Genoa.  By-the-bye,  on 
Isola  Bella  in  Lago  Maggiore  avc  saw  Bona- 
parte's name  cut  on  a  tree  by  himself  the  day 
before  Marengo.  Now  do  write  me,  dear.  Give 
my  love  to  all.  Address  Mr.  Smith's  care,  poste 
Restante,  Rome.  Forgive  this  hurried  letter. 
It  is  the  most  hopeless  feeling  attempting  to 
give  an  idea  of  any  thing  like  -J  the  things  we 
see.  We  long  for  home  letters.  They  are  at 
Leghorne,  where  I  hope  we  will  be  soon  now. 
Yours,  dear  Janet,  ever  affect'ly, 

M.  F.  Glassell. 

Let  my  Mother  know  when  you  hear.  I  am 
always  afraid  my  letters  do  not  reach  home. 
Tell  me  if  you  hear  they  do.  Tell  me  all  the 
home  news.  How  good  it  is  for  amor  patrie 
going  away  a  while  !  I  love  Scotland  so  much 
more  than  ever.  We  have  had  only  one  day 
with  a  single  cloud  since  we  left  Calais,  and  only 
one  rainy  day  since  we  set  out  from  Dunbar. 
I  send  this  off  from  Genoa,  a  noble  town  of 
the  Mediterranean,  which  appeared  magnificent ; 
the  sight  of  British  ships  very  refreshing. 


MISS    GLASSELL  645 


Miss  Glassell  to  Mrs.  H.  F.  Cadell. 

Paris,  Hotel  Meurice,  Rue  St.  Honokk, 

June   nth,   1819. 

My  dear  Janet, 

We  arrived  here  on  the  29th,  and  leave  it 
on  IMonday  next  lor  Calais  by  Beauvais.  We 
had  so  little  time  in  passing  through  before 
that  we  had  almost  all  the  sights  to  see  now. 
There  is  an  endless  variety  of  interest  besides 
amusement  here.  We  spent  a  very  delightful 
day  yesterday  in  the  Jardin  des  Plantes  and 
its  Museums.  A  friend  of  ours  introduced  us  to 
the  famous  Cuvier.  We  breakfasted  with  him, 
and  he  went  with  us  round  the  whole.  His 
wife  and  daughter  are  very  delightful  un-French- 
like  women,  and  seem  to  have  profited  to  the 
utmost  by  being  in  the  very  focus  of  everything 
interesting  and  awakening  to  the  mind.  Their 
house  is  in  the  Jardin,  which  is  quite  a  paradise, 
and  they  seem  personally  acquainted  with  all 
the  variety  of  animals  in  the  magnificent  Men- 
agerie, which  is  so  different  from  the  usual 
imprisonment.  The  Deer,  Goats,  Camels,  all 
the  docile  animals  are  in  beautiful  enclosures 
shaded  by  accacias  and  Plane  trees.  Their 
houses  arc  left  open,  and  they  go  out  and  in  as 
they  will.  We  were  there  and  in  the  Cabinets 
from  11  till  four,  and  when  we  left  it  only  felt 
what  a  world  of  wonders  were  yet  unseen.  ]\I. 
Cuvier  has  got  us  tickets  for  a  meeting  of  the 
Institute  to-day  when  a  member  is  to  be  ad- 
mitted. There  is  much  speaking  expected,  and 
we  are  very  lucky  in  getting  admission.  We 
went  up  the  other  day  to  Mt.  Martre,  where  the 
keeper,  a  director  of  the  telegraph,  gave  us  a 
detailed  account  of  all  the  movements  of  the 


646     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

allies  in  both  the  attacks  on  Mont  Martre,  and 
showed  us  the  marks  of  the  Russian's  balls  on 
the  building  which  entered  (some)  close  by  them. 
I  never  before  understood  fully  the  principle 
of  a  telegraph,  except  merely  the  clumsy 
contrivance  of  bells.  Here  it  seems  brought 
to  most  extraordinary  perfection.  A  message 
is  sent  to  Calais  and  the  answer  returned  in 
five  minutes.  Napoleon  once  wrote  a  long 
letter  to  Eugene  Beauharnais  at  Milan,  and  had 
an  answer  in  an  hour  and  half.  A  simple 
message  goes  in  incredibly  shorter  time,  but 
this  of  a  letter  crossing  the  Alps  seems  miraculous. 
They  have  very  fine  glasses,  and  we  saw  them 
working,  which  was  very  curious. 

19/A. — We  were  to-day  at  the  Institute.  The 
speaking  was  good — all  on  one  subject,  the 
work  and  character  of  Morellet,*  the  last  con- 
temporary of  Voltaire  and  the  constellation  of 
great  men  of  that  day.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
91,  and  a  very  spirited  little  piece  of  his,  the 
praises  of  old  age,  was  read.  We  have  been 
seeing  the  Tivoli  gardens  this  evening,  after 
dining  at  one  of  the  restaurateurs  Verys,  which 
is  more  like  the  public  room  of  an  English 
watering-place  than  any  thing  else.  Every 
place  full  of  English.  The  Tivoli  garden  is 
perhaps  the  most  perfect  epitome  of  the  sort  of 
amusements  that  delight  the  nation :  les  Mon- 
tagues Russes,  where  cars  fly  down  a  precipice 
by  a  railway ;  a  horizontal  windmill,  with  ships 
full-rigged  suspended  from  the  arms,  where 
ungrown  babies  get  so  many  rounds  for  ten 
sous ;  velocipedes,  some  with  chairs  where  you 
sit  while  a  man  mounted  behind  on  a  sort  of 
hobbyhorse  works  the  wheels  like  skaits.     But 

*  L'Abb6  Morellet,  man  of  letters  and  economist  (1727-1819). 


MISS    GLASSELL  647 

the  effect  of  the  Lights  amont^  llic  dark  alleys 
of  trees  and  orchestras  of  music,  gaily  illuminated 
shews  of  all  sorts,  little  Cafes  for  ices  and  re- 
freshments, and  the  crowds  of  people  sometimes 
shewn  so  distinctly  by  the  blaze  of  fireworks 
in  one  part,  or  dispersed  in  groups  among  the 
groves. 

We  are  going  to-morrow  to  Versailles  if  the 
weather  is  fme.  Indeed  their  and  our  ideas  of 
fine  weather  differ.  A  grey  day  they  consider 
a  decidedly  bad  one.  We  have  had  many 
since  we  came ;  they  are  like  home,  but  a  very 
great  contrast  to  the  cloudless  sky  of  Italy. 
[Paper  torn]  all  the  Roman  English  are  now 
come  on  here.  [Paper  torn]  multitudes  more 
are  every  day  coming  on,  though  few  compara- 
tively go  farther  than  Paris.  We  have  met 
two  Scotch  friends  since  we  came,  Mr.  Smith's 
youngest  brother  and  Lord  J.  Campbell.  The 
former  was  here  when  we  arrived,  and  we  were 
a  day  and  half  in  the  same  house  without  know- 
ing it.  There  were  then  IGO  English  in  this 
Hotel,  and  must  be  more  now,  I  think,  as  there 
are  arrivals  every  day.  We  have  got  delightful 
appartments,  with  a  garden  attached  to  them, 
and  looking  over  into  the  Thuilleries  garden.  I 
am  sorry  to  hear  of  Sir  George's  poor  state  of 
health ;  at  his  age  I  fear  there  is  little  chance  of 
his  recovery.  I  hear  Lord  John  Hay  has  left 
this  place  lately ;  he  had  intended  going  to 
Italy  with  a  friend  of  ours  who  is  going  now, 
but  changed  his  mind.  He  is  himself  quite 
certain  of  his  ultimate  success  in  the  County,  I 
hear.  Has  there  been  any  great  progress  made 
of  late  ? 

We  hope  to  go  to-morrow  to  hear  the  debates 
in  their  House  of  Commons.   Here  thev  are  more 


648     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

gallant  than  our  legislators,  admitting  ladies 
who  have  interest  for  tickets.  The  King  has 
been  much  of  an  invalid  and  not  seen  for  some 
time,  but  is  expected  to  attend  Mass  at  the 
Chapel  of  the  Palace  on  Sunday,  when  we  are  to 
get  admission,  though  I  confess  the  music  is  a 
greater  attraction  to  me  than  the  royalties. 
Believe  me,  my  dear  Janet, 
Yours  affectionately, 

M.  F.  Glassell. 


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VARIOUS   LETTERS 


Rob  Roy  to  Baillie  Buchanan. 

Dear  Sir, 

There  is  one  Patrick  C  .  .  .  tter  tliat  in- 
gaged  himself  as  Tenant  with  me  for  the  fourth 
part  of  Corriehervick  in  February  last,  and  I 
am  informed  now  that  he  is  ingaged  Tenant  in 
Ardshiel  [Rynneray  ?].  If  so  I  hope  that  you 
being  Chamberlain  to  charge  for  .  .  .  and  a  man 
that  I  trust  very  much  unto,  I  hope  that  you 
will  do  me  the  favour  as  to  send  your  officer  to 
him,  and  he  move  out  of  your  bounds,  for  I  have 
no  will  that  there  should  be  anything  that  could 
be  a  groudge  between  us.  He  was  so  unjust  to 
me  that  he  never  came  or  sent  to  tell  me  he  had 
altered  his  resolution.  I  hope  you  would  not 
put  me  to  .  .  .  the  trouble  as  to  write  any  one 
of  the  curators.  I  send  the  substance  of  this 
to  Duncan  Maclntyre  at  Inver[chernach  ?],  who 
will  faithfully  ...  all  it  to  me.  This  is  what 
should  be  done,  but  it  might  be  well  [torn]  trusts 
to  oyrs  us.  The  .  .  .  dismiss  one  of  us  does  to 
Edinburgh.  This  trusting  you  will  dispatch  him 
out  of  your  ground  very  soon. 

I  remain.  Sir,  Your's  as  formerly, 

Rob  Ror. 

May  22,  1718. 

VOL.   n.  049  21 


650     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Dr.  Johnson  to  Mr.  Allen. 

Dear  Sir, 

I  came  hither  on  Thursday  without  the 
least  trouble  or  fatigue,  but  I  do  not  yet  perceive 
any  improvement  in  my  health.  My  Breath  is 
very  much  obstructed,  my  legs  are  very  soon 
tired,  and  my  nights  are  very  restless.  Boswel 
went  back  next  day,  and  is  not  yet  returned. 
Miss  Adams  and  Miss  Moore  are  not  yet  come. 
How  long  I  shall  stay,  or  whither  I  shall  go,  I 
cannot  yet  guess.  While  I  am  away  I  beg  that 
you  will  sit  for  me  at  the  Club,  and  that  you 
will  pay  Betsy  Barber  five  shillings  a  week.  I 
hope  I  shall  by  degrees  be  better.  I  am.  Sir, 
Your  most  humble  servant, 

Sam:  Johnson. 

Pembroke  College,  Oxford, 
June  7,  1784. 

To  Mr.  Allen, 

Bolt  Court,  Fleet  Street,  London. 


A  Merman. 

At  Tiry  House  in  the  Island  of  Tiry  the 
Eleventh  day  of  August  One  thousand  Eight 
hundred  and  thirteen  Years. 

IN  PRESENCE  of  James  Maxwell,  Esquire, 
One  of  His  Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Peace  for 
the  County  of  Argyll. 

COMPEARED  Colin  MacNiven,  Tacksman 
of   Grianal   in   the   Island   of   Tiry,   who   being 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  651 

solemnly  Sworn  Depones  That  one  day  in  the 
beginning  of  Harvest  about  Eighteen  Years  ago 
two  little  Girls  who  had  been  walking  about  the 
Shores  of  his  Farm,  which  is  situated  on  the 
Western  extremity  of  the  Island  of  Tiry,  came 
to  him  the  Deponent,  and  informed  him  that 
there  was  an  human  body  cast  upon  the  Beach. 
That  a  brother  of  the  Deponent  having  been 
drowned  a  short  time  before  this  period,  he 
hastened  to  the  Shore  to  examine  the  Body. 
That  he  and  some  of  his  Servants  who  were 
alongst  with  him,  in  the  belief  that  it  was  an 
human  body,  raised  it  from  amongst  the  Sand, 
and  then  perceived  that  down  from  the  Middle 
it  was  formed  like  a  Fish.  That  it  was  in  a  very 
putrid  state,  and  from  having  been  tossed  and 
chaffed  amongst  the  Rocks  and  Sand  the  sur- 
face Skin  was  almost  entirely  rubbed  off.  That 
the  upper  part  of  the  Body  had  a  perfect  resem- 
blance to  the  human  form.  That  the  Head  was 
about  the  size  of  that  of  a  Lad  of  twelve  or  four- 
teen Years  of  age,  the  features  of  the  face  very 
much  resembling  those  of  a  Negroe  ;  the  Ears 
small  and  flat  like  the  Human  P]ar.  That  the 
chin  was  short  and  projected,  but  very  little 
beyond  the  line  of  the  Neck.  Depones  that  the 
Arms  appeared  to  be  about  fourteen  Inches 
long,  formed  in  all  respects  like  the  human  Arm, 
and  ending  in  hands  like  the  human  hand,  with 
fingers  and  Nails  like  those  of  a  Man,  except 
that  the  fingers  w^ere  all  joined  together  by  a 
thin  Membrane.  That  its  intestines  were  torn 
out,  and  the  Deponent  could  not  observe  whether 
there  had  been  any  Sexual  distinction.  Depones 
that  the  extreme  length  of  the  animal  appeared 
to  him  to  have  been  fully  five  feet,  and  from 
about  the  Middle  downwards  was  formed  like  a 


652     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Fish.  That  at  the  point  where  the  human 
form  descended  into  that  of  a  Fish  there  were 
two  broad  lateral  fins,  and  that  the  tail  was 
forked  like  that  of  a  Mackarel,  but  placed  flat 
or  horizontally.  Depones  that  there  was  a 
small  part  of  the  Skin  remaining  entire  near  to 
the  tail  which  resembled  the  skin  of  a  Porpoise 
and  was  perfectly  free  of  hair.  Depones  that 
from  the  close  resemblance  which  the  upper 
part  of  the  Animal  bore  to  the  human  form  he 
the  Deponent  and  his  Servants  did  not  like  to 
see  it  exposed  to  injury  or  torn  by  Dogs,  and 
they  therefore  put  it  upon  a  hand  barrow  and 
carried  it  to  a  Sand  bank,  where  they  dug  an 
hole  for  it  and  hurried  it.  That  they  raised  an 
head  and  foot  stone  and  threw  some  loose 
stones  and  Sand  over  it  to  protect  the  body  and 
mark  the  place  as  a  Grave.  Depones  that  a 
Grave  in  a  Sand  bank  near  to  his  the  Deponent's 
House  which  he  has  shewn  to  the  Magistrate 
before  whom  this  Deposition  is  emitted,  and 
which  has  been  opened  in  his  presence  and  in 
presence  of  his  Son  Doctor  Niel  Maxwell,  is  the 
same  in  which  the  Deponent  and  his  Servants 
deposited  the  body  of  the  Animal  above  de- 
scribed, and  that  the  Remains  of  a  Skeleton 
found  therein  are  its  Remains,  all  which  is  truth 
as  he  shall  answer  to  God. 

Collin  McNiven. 

The  above  Deposition  was  emitted  and  the 
Grave  therein  mentioned  was  opened  in  presence 
of  us, 

Jas.  Maxwell,  J.P. 
Neil  Maxwell,  M.D. 


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VARIOUS    LETTERS  653 

From  Lady  John  Campbell. 

November  18th,   1820. 

My  Dear  Francis, 

As  Robert  is  no  scribe  nor  decypherer  of 
writing  I  am  unwillingly  obliged  to  trouble  you 
to  send  for  him,  and  desire  him  to  get  the  detail 
of  the  accoiuits,  the  sums  of  which  M'**  Scot 
has  given  me  the  enclosed  note  of,  &  to  send 
the  Beer  &  coal  accounts  also.  If  he  brings 
them  to  you,  will  you  be  so  good  as  send  them 
under  one  or  more  covers  to  me.  I  send  for 
Robert  also  a  note  of  the  Cottars'  rents  due, 
which  I  wish  him  to  pay  to  you  also.  In  case 
of  making  a  voyage  of  discovery  to  the  other 
world  this  winter,  I  wish  to  have  all  my  most 
trilling  affairs  in  order,  that  Lord  John  may  not 
be  bothered.  I  believe  the  fright  I  got  when 
I  found  myself  in  debt  at  20  through  that 
worthy  man  Stuart's  management  was  a  very 
good  thing,  as  I  have  a  most  pious  horror  at  debt 
ever  since,  a  disease  not  much  amiss  in  this 
family ;  but  though  I  say  it  my  share  of  them  is 
an  exception,  as  he  is  a  perfectly  regular  man  of 
business.  Great  has  been  iny  delight  at  being 
relieved  from  the  fear  of  his  going  away ;  he  had 
determined  to  send  an  excuse,  having  no  idea 
of  the  possibility  of  such  a  result.  However,  the 
fear  I  was  in  for  some  weeks  gave  me  small 
peace,  so  they  laid  me  up  &  bled  me,  which, 
however,  did  me  less  good  than  being  put  out  of 
suspense. 

Lord  John  &  Hercules  are  very  busy  plant- 
ing a  belt  where  a  new  approach  is  to  be, 
thinning  young  wood,  &c.,  much  better  fun 
than   listening   to   Miss^*   Lushington   &   Co.     I 


654     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

hope  the  lower  classes  with  you  are  not  mad 
Queenites  as  here ;  two  nights  since  they  stole 
Boats  &  barrels  for  bonfires  at  Helensburgh — 
&  Greenock  was  blazing.  We  shut  all  our  shutters 
for  fear  our  lights  sh^  seem  Rads  too.  People 
disapproving  of  the  Liturgy  business,  &c.,  one 
can  understand,  but  giving  the  narrow  escape 
of  such  a  woman  the  appearance  of  triumph  is 
quite  an  outrage  on  the  moral  character  of  the 
Nation. 

Anent  the  insurance,  L^  John  begs  leave  to 
say  his  Turning  &  Cabinet  maker  tools  there 
cost  £180  &  are  worth  more.  In  the  name  of 
wonder  why  did  L^  Tweeddale  not  vote  on  the 
Bill? 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

I.  G.  C. 

From  Lady  C.  Campbell. 

AnGYLii  House,  Monday  Mornitig. 

This  is  to  be  a  great  day,  And  I  begin  it  well, 
My  Dear  Camelia,  by  writing  to  you.  I  know 
no  Wonderful  News,  but  will  give  you  a  little 
Sketch  of  My  Life  &  adventures  since  last  Mon- 
day, which  was  the  day  of  our  Arrival,  &  really, 
considering  all  The  Difficulties  we  underwent 
ere  we  reach 'd  this,  I  think  we  ought  to  keep  it 
ever  after  as  a  Jubilee.  My  first  Appearance 
was  on  Friday  Night  at  Lady  Salisbury's  crowded 
Assembly  ;  there  were  a  great  Number  of 
People  of  My  particular  Acquaintance  all  being 
or  pretending  to  be  very  Happy  to  See  Me.  I 
was  Universally  told  that  I  Had  increased  Not 
a  little,  one  or  two  thought  Me  rather  Prodigious, 
but  on  The  whole  if  Half  the  Flattery  Stuck  to 
Me  which  was  offer'd  I  fear  My  Brain  Must  be 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  655 

Much  the  worse  of  it.  Saturday  I  went  to  The 
Opera,  whicli  is  bad  in  every  way,  The  Bantis' 
singing  Excepted;  that  indeed  Must  always  be 
Heavenly.  Lady  Abercorn  Has  got  The  Dss.  of 
Gordon's  Box,  as  the  latter  is  obliged  for  laek  of 
Rhino*  to  remain  at  Kimbolten.  Lady  Abereorn 
was  dres'd  in  Pink  And  look'd  devinely  well,  so 
did  Lady  William  Russell  &  Her  Sisters,  Caroline 
Villiers  &  Anne  Lambton.  We  Had  in  our 
Box  Lord  Granville  Levison,  L"^  Borringdon, 
Lord  Abercorn,  M^  Pichell  Bobby,  &c.  L^  G. 
&  L^  B.  are  in  High  Good  looks  &  Spirits, 
And  we  are  as  great  Frie7ids  as  ever.  Nothing 
More,  Nor  do  I  wish  to  be.  Lord  Darnley  too 
I  like  vastly,  So  Sensible  And  Good  He  is,  or 
at  least  Appears  to  be.  I  talk'd  Mostly  to 
Him,  tho'  Col.  Leith  &  several  others  came  in 
for  a  share  of  My  Tongue,  &  there  is  yet  Enough 
left  for  as  Many  More.  I  fancy  The  Widow's 
Cruise  was  only  Allegorical,  &  Meant  Neither 
More  nor  less  than  a  Female  Tongue. 

Well,  you  See,  The  Opera  went  off  pleasantly,  & 
so  did  I  Home  to  Bed,  &  was  in  time  for  King 
Street  chapel  yesterday  Morning,  where  we  Had 
a  Good  Sermon  tho'  I  thought  too  Political. 
At  Night  I  went  to  An  Assembly  (not  a  Belle 
Assemble)  at  L^  Cecilia's.  There  was  Lady  Betty 
Mackenzie  shaking  Her  Head,  &  t'other  old 
Female  Sister  Mandarin  shaking  Her  Head  also, 
The  Maiden  House  keeper  Miss  Jennings,  with 
Sundry  other  Antique  Maids,  widows,  Wifes,  & 
what  Not  too  tedious  to  Mention.  Then  as  for 
Youthful  Virgins  &  Blooming  Brides,  I  add  to 
the  List  Mrs.  Johnstone,  Her  Sister  M"  C: 
Bury  Street,  Miss  Berrys,  Louisa,  &  your 
Humble   Servant.     No  one   could   Complain   of 

*  Slang  for  money. 


656     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

want  of  Beauxs,  for  there  was  ye  poor  Dear  old 
General  flan7ieVd  Up  to  His  Eyes,  Marshal  Con- 
way who  now  Neither  Sees  nor  Hears,  Gen' 
Bude  of  full  Venerable  Aspect,  &  Lord  Mount 
Edgecumb  of  Detestable  Graces  &  Grimaces, 
whose  Black  Coat  for  Llis  poor  Father  Made  a 
Charming  Contrast  with  The  Fadeur  of  His 
Complexion,  &  His  Bag  &  Sword  added  Much 
Dignity  to  His  Gigantic  Stature  &  Warlike 
Appearance.  Had  Llis  Mother  been  there  I 
should  certainly  Have  taken  Her  for  Mother 
Bunch  &  Him  for  The  Yellow  Dwarf — but  really 
this  looks  very  ill  Natured,  &  did  I  Not  feel  that 
Mere  Vivacity  Exempt  from  Any  Malice  or  Un- 
charitableness  Had  Dictated  it  I  would  Not 
Suffer  so  bad  a  sample  of  My  Heart  to  Stand 
in  black  &  white  Against  Me. 

Now  Having  Made  this  self-saving  Digression,  I 
will  return  to  L^  Cecilia's  Drawing  Room  in  idea,  I 
Hope  not  in  reality  for  some  time,  Tho'  I  chatted 
away  with  My  female  favourites,  And  Amused 
Myself  very  well  for  once.  M"^^  Johnstone  looks 
very  well,  tho'  not  so  fat  as  she  was  ye  last  time 
I  saw  Her.  M^'  C:  is  in  High  Beauty.  M" 
Anderson's  Face  is  Plumpd  up  &  looks  well ; 
Her  Figure  is  Broken  down  &  looks  Disjointed, 
with  Slatternly  Petticoats  Hanging  upon  Nothing. 
Lady  Cecilia  enquired  kindly  for  you,  so  did 
L^  Ailesbury,  who  is  really  a  good  Natured 
Worthy  Woman  when  they  let  Her  alone.  Lady 
Frederick  was  not  there ;  she  said  Yesterday 
Morning  she  Avas  surprised,  she  wonder'd  \o\x 
did  not  prefer  being  at  Edin*^  to  remaining  alone 
at  Roseneath.  I  replied  that  every  one  Judged 
these  Matters  best  for  their  own  Tastes  &  feel- 
ings, &  tho'  Perhaps  /  might  Not  Have  prefer'd 
a  total  retirement  at  My  Age,  that  were  I  no 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  657 

longer  so  Young  My  choice  Might  very  Hkely 
coincide  with  Yours,  &  Her  wonders  ceased  for 
that  Time.  L'^  F:  looks  ill  &  thin,  particularly 
His  Legs. 

I  supp'd  at  M"*  C:  Locknells  with  Lady 
Archibald  Campbell,  M'**  Malcolm  Colensey,  & 
Col:  Leith ;  these  with  The  Padrona  cC*  Padrone 
Delia  Casa,  Johny,  Augusta,  &  Myself  Spent  a 
Merry  Evening,  Sat  up  Singing  till  past  one,  & 
then  Retired  Mutually  pleased  I  Hope  &  believe. 
I  forget  whether  or  Not  I  told  you  we  were 
at  Richmond  on  Friday  Morning.  We  found 
Elizabeth  grown  very  Lovely,  Lady  D:  rather 
worse,  but  as  for  M""  Cole  He  was  just  gone  out, 
so  I  only  Saw  His  Picture.  If  in  His  Person 
He  is  Half  as  well  as  that,  Her  Eyes  at  least 
Have  not  been  so  Much  to  Blame.  Various  Are 
The  Accounts  I  Hear  of  Him,  but  Most  of  them 
are  favourable.  The  Sensible  part  of  His  Con- 
duct is  that  He  Reads  every  day  with  Elizabeth, 
&  seldom  or  ever  leaves  Her  even  for  An  Instant. 
She  was  very  ill  with  The  Influenza  that  is  Going 
about,  &  He  never  for  an  Instant  left  Her,  but 
paid  Her  all  sorts  of  attentions.  Nor  Suffer'd 
The  Maids  to  do  Anything  about  Her.  All  that 
I  Had  from  Peggy,  who  Heaven  knows  abuses 
them  Sufficiently  to  Make  one  believe  The  Truth 
of  Her  Commendations.  I  Have  not  yet  been 
able  to  learn  by  Any  Satisfactory  Accounts 
whether  Eliz:  or  Peggy  was  to  blame  in  that 
Separation,  or  whether  they  are  both  in  fault; 
the  latter  I  think  Most  likely. 

Papa  Has  been  wonderfully  Well  Since  He 
Arrived,  but  this  Morning  Has  been  very  Vnwell. 
Farquhar  says  it  is  Undoubtedly  Tl\e  Influenza, 
which  tho'  very  Tedious  &  lowering  is  not 
Dangerous.     It  is  a  Sad  Pity  tho'  after  He  was 


658     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

So  well.  They  Say  The  Prince  is  still  Miserable 
for  M"  Fitz:  *  who  first  Broke  off  their  Arrange- 
ment. He  goes,  However,  every  Night  to  L^ 
Jersey's  pour  se  Consoler;  she  (L^  J:)  never  stirs 
out,  &  they  sit  &  talk  all  Night  till  one  or  two 
o'clock.  These  New  Loves  &  Miserys  for  ye  old 
Love  are  Strange  Contradictions.  But  Human 
Nature  was  ever  a  Contradiction ;  both  Men  & 
Women  are  at  best  a  Contradiction  Still. 

I  write  in  a  great  Hurry  all  I  Hear,  so  do  not 
Vouch  for  The  truth  of  it  nor  for  The  Distinct 
Manner  in  which  I  Have  recited  it,  but  you 
Must  forgive  your  affec. 

C:  M:   Campbell. 

P.S. — I  Have  done  Nothing  about  ye  News- 
papers because  Mr.  Mackinnon  told  me  He  Had 
Settled  that  with  you. 

M.  G.  to  Mrs.  McCall. 

Inverakay,  July  18th. 

My  Dear  M"^  M^Call, 

According  to  my  promise,  tho'  I  have 
little  time,  I  sit  down  during  a  few  minutes  before 
the  post  hour,  but  verily  this  day  is  so  fury  and 
I  am  in  such  a  fever  I  can  scarce  hold  a  pen. 
It  is  quite  vain  to  tell  you  what  we  have  been 
about  since  we  came  here ;  we  have  really  been 
like  evil  spirits,  or  at  least  troubled  Consceences, 
never  resting  night  or  day.  Of  all  our  pranks 
the  most  delightful  was  the  other  night  going 
to  the  herring  fishing.  We  did  not  go  to  bed,  & 
sett  off  at  two  o'Clock  with  the  piper  in  the 
boat,  &  saw  some  nets  drawn.  It  was  really  a 
night  fit  to  send  any  one  to  the  house  on  the 

*  Mrs.  Fitzherbert. 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  659 

hill  at  Glasgow — from  very  craziness  with  its 
beauty,  and  we  had  pibrochs  and  all  sorts  of 
music.  There  were  about  200  boats  out.  Did 
you  ever  see  the  nets  drawn  ?  It  is  so  beautiful 
in  the  dark  or  dim  light :  the  silvery  glittering  of 
the  fish,  and  the  calls  of  the  men  from  one  boat 
to  another.  We  went  up  the  Loch  that  we 
might  see  the  morning  break  over  the  Loch  Awe 
hills,  or,  as  Miss  Helen  would  say,  "  See  the  Sin 
rise  over  the  hills  from  the  muddle  of  the  Loch." 
It  was  so  lovely  as  the  light  got  up,  one  by  one 
the  boatmen  hoisting  their  sails  and  retiring 
into  all  the  creeks  round.  We  came  home  about 
half-past  4,  and  had  a  very  jolly  supper  or  what- 
ever you  call  it  on  our  spoils. 

We  had  another  fine  day's  fishing  on  the 
Dhu  Loch,  and  an  excursion  to  Loch  Awe : 
did  you  ever  see  it  ?  But  there  is  nothing 
half  so  delightful  as  having  the  band  on  the 
green  in  the  evening,  and  us  dandering  on  the 
leads  while  they  play  and  the  Moon  rises  in 
glory  over  the  Cowal  hills.  There  never  was 
so  lovely  a  night  as  last.  We  dined  early, 
rode  down  to  the  Factory  afterwards  :  it  was 
delightful.  I  think  we  are  going  to  have  a 
thunder  storm  to-day,  much  need  to  cool  the 
air.  We  go  to  Dalmally  to-morrow  night.  Next 
day  to  Oban,  from  that  Lord  knows  where.  I 
am  to  ride. 

Mrs.  R.  is  here,  and  just  as  agreeable  as  ever, 
only  she  dare  not  muddle  with  me,  but  torments 
her  husband  &  his  sister. 

L^  John  orders  me  to  stop  or  I  shall  get  no 
frank,  as  it  is  late. 

Ever  yours, 

M.  G. 

Love  to  y""  Lord. 


660     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

From  Lady  John  Campbell. 

Inveeabay  Castle,  October  2Uh. 

My  Dear  Francis, 

I  had  the  pleasure  of  receiving  your 
letter  (forwarded  Arden)  yesterday.  As  we  intend 
being  ourselves  in  Edin'"  in  Dec""  at  all  events, 
perhaps  it  may  be  as  well  to  delay  any  farther 
operations  on  the  Lime  till  that  time.  I  only 
say  this  from  our  knowing  of  no  scientific  person 
to  whom  we  can  apply,  but  if  you  do,  we  would 
like  the  operations  to  proceed  forthwith ;  indeed 
Lord  John  says  he  thinks  y'"  own  judgement 
must  be  quite  as  satisfactory  as  any  scientific 
person,  whose  knowledge  is  often  more  theoreti- 
cal than  practical.  Heaven  knows  how  soon 
or  how  late  it  may  be  when  Lord  John  passes 
to  London  ;  the  Duke  by  a  letter  to-day  seems 
in  perfect  despair  of  ever  being  released,  and 
thinks  there  will  positively  be  another  adjourn- 
ment of  the  Lords  in  consequence  of  legal  demurs 
and  discussions.  Lady  Charlotte  is  on  her  way 
home  summoned  by  her  Majesty,  whose  system 
of  exculpation  seems  much  of  a  piece  with  the 
Irishman  who,  on  Trial  for  an  assault  which 
5  men  swore  to  have  witnessed,  exclaimed  with 
much  triumph,  "  By  Jasus,  if  you  have  5  men 
to  swear  they  saw  me  fell  Pat,  I'll  bring  50  to 
swear  they  never  saw  me  near  him  !  "  I  am 
kept  in  hot  water  for  fear  of  Lord  John  going 
up,  but  he  says  if  he  does  go  he  won't  stay. 

We  have  had  a  very  jovial  meeting  here,  3 
days  of  public  breakfasts,  dinner,  ball,  &  supper 
at  the  Inn,  and  one  day  here  a  dinner  of  45 
people  &  ladies  in  the  evening  dancing.  ...  I 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  661 

was  afraid  the  row  of  the  Free-holder  dinner  here 
would  have  knocked  him  *  up,  but  he  was  not  a 
whit  the  worse,  &  is  now  away  cross  Dunna- 
quoich  with  the  remaining  men  of  the  Castle 
party  (now  getting  thin)  Roebuck  shooting.  We 
had  a  very  gay  scene  on  the  lawn.  L'^  J"  & 
M""  Smith  sent  up  a  very  fine  balloon  which  we 
got  in  Paris  last  year.  The  day  was  bright, 
but  the  breeze  obliged  them  to  half  fill  it  in  the 
house  &  lead  it  out.  The  lawn  was  covered  with 
people  of  all  ranks,  our  own  band  playing,  & 
when  the  Balloon  rose  two  ships  of  war  laying 
off  saluted,  which  was  returned  in  a  hundred 
echoes  &  re-echoes  from  the  mountains  round. 
The  Balloon  went  about  four  miles  &  descended 
in  the  sea,  to  great  dismay  of  some  workpeople 
who  were  near.  The  whole  people  then  went  to 
see  the  Dhu  Loch  dragged,  foot  races,  leaping, 
&c.,  and  concluded  the  forenoon  by  a  sail  in 
M""  Smith's  bateau,  except  L'^  John  &  I  who  have 
a  due  preference  for  Terra  Firma.  We  were 
much  the  better  for  the  sailors.  The  Capt.  of 
one  ship  is  a  natural  son  of  Lord  Nelson's,  a 
particularly  interesting  gentlemanlike  person ;  so 
were  his  officers,  at  least  as  to  the  latter  quality, 
&  they  as  well  as  some  other  strangers  were 
much  pleased  with  the  specimen  they  had  of 
Highland  gaiety  &  hospitality.  It  was  a  thousand 
pities  the  Argylls  could  not  come,  &  Isla  was 
detained  by  L^  Elinor's  job.  Her  Ladyship's 
Health  was  drunk  with  much  enthusiasm,  &  he 
is  re-elected  steward  for  next  year.  .  .  . 

Y""^  sincerely, 
M.  I.  G.  Campbell. 

*  Lord  John. 


662     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

From  Lady  John  Campbell. 

My  Dear  Francis, 

I  had  my  Aunt's  letter  the  other  night — 
and  since  James  had  a  suit  before  of  course  there 
is  no  need  for  more.  We  had  given  the  Nurse 
5  guineas,  thinking  it  the  best  sort  of  present. 
I  said  something  about  a  present  to  Ja^  under 
the  impression  that  he  had  not  got  it.  Perhaps 
My  Aunt  will  be  so  good  as  explain  this  to  her. 
The  Meeting  here  has  gone  off  very  well,  very 
good  races.  Campbell  Barcaldine  won  an  80 
guinea  Cup,  and  Isla  a  40  guinea  one ;  the  Duke 
had  a  horse  sure  of  the  first,  but  he  withdrew  it 
thinking  it  better  some  other  person  should  get 
it.  Lord  John  has  announced  his  intention  of 
retiring,  &  Isla  starts  in  his  room.  I  am  delighted 
to  get  out  of  the  scrape  :  he  is  quite  tired  of  going 
to  London ;  &  as  his  political  opinions  are  quite 
opposite  to  the  Duke's,  it's  needless  to  sacrifice 
one's  personal  comfort,  one's  opinions  and  in- 
terests all  at  the  same  time.  We  have  sad 
weather,  &  the  crops  in  a  melancholy  state. 
Believe  Me  y^^  sincerely, 

I.  G.  Campbell. 

From  Mrs.  Hemans. 

Bronwylfa,  St.  Asaph, 

JarV  23",   1822. 

My  dear  Madam, 

It  is  by  such  feelings  of  pure  and  heart- 
felt gratification  as  these  which  your  Ladyship's 
most  kind  letter  could  not  but  excite,  that 
the  many  anxieties  attendant  upon  a  literary 
career,  (especially  when  pursued  by  a  Female,) 
are  occasionally  overpaid. 

Amongst  the  moments  of  such  pleasure  which 


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OPENING    I, INKS    AM)    SI(;NATLRK    OF    I.KTIKH     KHUM     I  KI.K  lA     HKMANS    TO 
LADY    JOHN     CAMl'UKI.L 

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VARIOUS    LETTERS  663 

have  fallen  to  my  share,  I  can  remember  none 
of  more  deep  and  sincere  delight,  than  those 
for  which  I  am  indebted  to  the  approbation  you 
have  done  me  the  honour  of  expressing  in  terms 
so  kindly  and  encouraging.  Fame  and  Popu- 
larity may  have  many  more  dazzling  triumphs, 
but  none  of  which  the  heart  "  can  ask,  if  this 
he  joy,^''  and  be  answered  with  such  analloyed 
satisfaction.  It  certainly  is  joy,  and  that  of 
the  purest  and  most  intellectual  kind,  to  learn 
that  our  own  thoughts  have  impressed  them- 
selves so  deeply  upon  an  ardent  and  cultivated 
Mind  ;  and  with  your  Ladyship's  name,  this 
feeling  will  ever  be  associated  in  my  recollection. 
The  inquiries  which  express  so  flattering  an 
interest  in  me,  shall  be  answered  with  all  the 
frankness  they  deserve.  I  have  never  had  the 
happiness  of  visiting  Italy,  though  my  imagina- 
tion has  always  turned  to  that  Country  with  an 
enthusiasm  for  which  I  can  hardly  account.  I 
sometimes  amuse  myself  with  describing  it  as 
instinctive,  as  my  Mother's  family  were  Vene- 
tians, but  with  them  I  have  never  had  any  com- 
munication, having  passed  my  own  retired  life 
almost  exclusively  amongst  the  Mountains  of 
Wales,  for  which  I  now  feel  all  the  attachment 
of  a  Native.  I  have  now  too  many  domestic 
ties  even  to  form  a  wish  for  exploring  "  cette 
terra  ou  les  Citronniers  fleurissent " ;  but  in  the 
earlier  part  of  my  youth,  my  longing  to  visit 
its  magnificent  Wonders,  both  of  Nature  and 
Art,  amounted  almost  to  a  Passion,  which,  like 
most  other  hopeless  ones,  was  only  subdued  by 
Time.  I  can  now  content  myself  with  the  study 
of  its  History  and  Literature,  which  have  ever 
been  my  chosen  pursuits  ;  and  I  often  think 
that  it  is  perhaps  better  to  preserve  the  bright 


664     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

idea  of  Italy  as  it  exists  unclouded  in  my  mind, 
than  to  have  it  dimmed  or  impaired,  as  appears 
to  have  been  the  case  with  many  recent  Tra- 
vellers, who  complain  of  the  disappointment 
their  highly  coloured  expectations  had  sustained. 

I  have  too  long  delayed  acknowledging  your 
Ladyship's  kind  invitation  to  Scotland.  I 
should  want  no  inducement  to  visit  a  Country 
to  many  of  whose  Inhabitants  I  feel  sincerely 
indebted,  and  whose  scenery  "  of  the  Mountain 
and  the  flood  "  has  become  almost  classic 
ground,  since  it  has  been  peopled  with  such 
glorious  creations  by  "  the  Ariosto  of  the 
North  "  ;  but  I  am  at  present  bound  by  too 
many  links  to  "  my  ain  hearth-stane,"  to  break 
through  them  even  in  pursuit  of  such  gratifica- 
tions as  Scottish  Society  would,  I  am  convinced, 
afford  me.  I  have  a  Sister  at  present  in 
Edinburgh  who  has  had  the  good  fortune  to 
be  introduced  to  M'^^  Grant,  and  many  other 
distinguished  characters  in  that  "  romantic 
Town  "  ;  of  which  her  description  has,  if  pos- 
sible, increased  my  admiration.  She  has  been 
much  in  Italy,  Germany,  and  Switzerland,  and  is 
therefore  better  able  to  appreciate  its  beauties, 
both  natural  and  acquired. 

I  have  taken  the  liberty  of  enclosing,  for  your 
Ladyship's  acceptance,  a  little  Italian  Story 
which  I  published,  some  time  since,  in  Con- 
stable's Magazine.  I  had  intended  greatly  to 
extend  it,  and  introduce  additional  characters 
and  incidents,  but  having  been  unexpectedly 
forestalled  by  a  Poem  of  M'"  Herbert's,  called 
"  Pia  della  Pietra,"  I  gave  up  the  idea  of  pub- 
lishing it  separately.  The  Subject  alone,  which 
always  struck  me  as  particularly  interesting, 
encouraged  me  to  hope  that  it  may  be  acceptable 


i,i;th;h    ihom   hahii.n    i  i  \  jkii 

p.  cen 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  C65 

to  you.  Since  I  had  the  honour  of  receiving 
your  letter,  I  have  been  informed  that  M"" 
Murray  of  Albemarle  Street  has  advertised 
second  editions  of  "The  Sceptic"  and  "Modern 
Greece,"  respecting  which  last,  if  I  am  not  mis- 
taken. Miss  M'^Neil  had  inquired  in  your  name. 
I  will  consult  my  friends  upon  the  suggestion  of 
publishing  in  Scotland,  and  should  they  recom- 
mend it,  will  not  hesitate  to  avail  myself  of  the 
interest  your  Ladyship  has  so  cordially  offered. 
May  I  hope  that  this  letter  of  Egotism  will  be 
pardoned  by  the  kindness  which  has  led  me  on 
to  the  unreserved  communication  of  my  cir- 
cumstances and  feelings,  and  allow  me  to  assure 
you,  dear  Madam,  with  how  much  sincerity  I 
shall  ever  consider  Myself,  your  Ladyship's 

Truly  obliged 

Felicia  Hemans. 

I  ought  to  apologize  for  sending  so  very  rough 
a  copy  of  "  The  Maven,"  but  I  have  no  other, 
not  even  in  MS. 

From  Lady  John  Campbell. 

Abden-Garth,  July  20th,  1824. 

My  Dear  Francis, 

I  have  received  your  two  letters,  the  first 
containing  the  result  of  Houden's  Link  Park 
plea  &  the  last  y'"  account  with  Longniddry. 
When  the  first  came  we  were  going  off  to  Argyll- 
shire by  steam  to  carry  the  3  Islay  girls  and 
little  Johnny  Campbell  Islay  to  Ardpatreck  on 
West  Lock  Tarbert,  the  embarking  place  for 
Islay.  A  steam  Boat  had  been  hired  on  the 
30th  June  to  take  them  all  round  the  Mull  of 
Kentyre,  but  when  we  took  one  of  them  who 
was  with  us  to  join  the  party  at  Greenock,  we 
VOL.  II.  22 


666     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

found  the  Cap*  had  played  false  &  crammed  the 

Boat.      Lord   John   took  the  girls  &  out 

&  brought  them  here  (Lady  Ellinor  is  with 
Walter  making  a  tour  of  Argyllshire),  &  most 
fortunate  it  was,  as  the  steam  Boat  was  in  con- 
siderable danger  twice,  &  after  2  attempts  to 
get  round  the  Mull  was  driven  back  &  landed 
at  East  Tarbert  in  Loch  Fyne.  We  went  to 
Oakfield  after  seeing  them  off,  and  came  home 
on  Wednesday  last.  I  got  a  bad  cold,  which 
has  prevented  me  writing  sooner.  I  am  very 
glad  L'*  Elden  gave  so  strong  an  opinion  as  to 
the  spirit  of  the  Trustees'  demand.  I  hope 
their  other  pleas  may  meet  the  same  fate. 

Robert  is  very  obedient — I  suppose  he  thinks 
needs  must  when  the  Devil  drives.  I  wish  you 
would  pay  to  John  Cadell  for  a  piece  of  Mosaic 
ware  of  Pietra  Duro  he  brought  me  from  Italy. 
While  we  were  at  Oakfield  I  had  a  letter  from 
Lady  Tweeddale  asking  my  interest  with  Lord 
John  for  his  vote,  which  he  of  course  gave,  a 
few  days  before  Sir  James'  circular  had  come. 
I  hope  to  be  in  the  East  country  some  time 
before  winter.  I  am  dying  to  see  Lady  Dal- 
housie ;  I  have  not  heard  any  direct  news  of  them 
since  they  came  home.  How  delighted  they  must 
be  to  see  the  boys !  By  all  accounts  Ramsay 
is  a  perfect  model  of  a  boy's  character.  On  one 
occasion  there  was  some  conspiracy  against  the 
Master  at  Harrow  the  boys  wished  R.  to  join. 
He  refused,  and  said  not  only  "  I  won't  join," 
but  *'  If  you  persist  I'll  inform  the  Master,  and  if 
you  think  that  unhandsome  I  am  quite  ready  to 
fight  you  all  round."  M""  Story  told  me  this;  I 
believe  it  is  quite  true.  We  have  been  thinning 
a  good  deal  of  wood.  Lord  John  has  got  about 
£500  worth  of  oak  here,  yet  it  is  never  missed. 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  6G7 

We  expect  the  Argylls  down  the  2''  week  of 
August — to  remain  during  the  Autumn.  In  the 
steam  B*  eoming  from  L.  Gilphead  the  other 
day  we  met  M'  Lumsdcn  &  his  new  wife;  he 
told  me  he  had  seen  Tom  Hepburn  lately,  & 
that  he  had  become  such  a  fine  lad.  I  wonder 
if  Mama  w'^  allow  him  &  Johnny  to  come  &  take 
a  day  or  two's  shooting  here  sometime  before 
they  go  back  to  College.  When  are  you  coming  ? 
Cannot  Janet  <£•  you  come  now  ?  any  time  before 
the  2^  week  of  August,  when  our  house  will  be 
full  for  a  day  or  two,  or  three  probably.  Lord 
John  joins  me  in  this,  &  also  begs  you  will  tell 
M"^  Burnet  we  expect  he  will  come  this  year. 
Tell  him  we  had  two  months  entirely  dry,  &  after 
2  weeks'  rain  it  seems  now  quite  settled  again. 

I  have  the  finest  potatoe  crop  in  the  county, 
&  16  acres  of  green  crop;  the  2  of  Turnips  are 
not  so  good.  We  sold  of  the  potatoes  you  saw 
last  year  £130  on  the  ground,  &  after  keeping 
what  we  required  we  this  Spring  sold  23  Bolls 
at  17/-  per  Boll.  Is  E.  Lothian  a  good  place  to 
get  milk  cows  ?  I  am  very  anxious  to  get  some 
good  milkers.  We  have  none  above  9  Pints  a 
day.  A  friend  of  mine  in  Argyllshire  'Tother 
day  bought  one  who  gives  17  Pints  for  £10 — 
which  has  raised  my  envy.  Lord  John  desires 
his  kindest  regards,  &  hopes  you  will  come. 
Believe  me  Y'^'^  sincerely, 

M.  I.  G.  Campbell. 

When  you  have  an  oppo*^'  tell  Rob*  wife  he  is 
quite  well,  &  will  you  when  you  write  mention 
how  his  family  are  ?  Kind  regard  to  Janet. 
Tell  me  if  you  think  Tom  Hepburn  w'*  come,  & 
I  w**  write  to  them  ab*  it. 


668     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

Scraps  found  in  the  pocket  of  a  poor  young 
parish  Dominie  when,  on  lodging  him  in  the 
Asylum,  it  was  found  necessary  to  search  him. 

WoODALIi. 

To  a  Young  Lady  with  an  Astronomical  Map  of 
the  Stars. 

Gaze  on  those  worlds  of  Light, 

And    still    to    thee     may    their     soft    voiceless 

language  tell 
Of  a  Bright  realm  that  claims  Thee  as  its  own; 
And  as  thy  long  blue  eyes  have  been  to  me 
Fountains   of  sweetest   thoughts   and   love   and 

gentleness 
That  come,  even  like  a  mingled  stream  over  the 

soul 
And  wash  it  from  the  weary  dust 
Of  this  world's  cares  and  strife. 
So  to  Thy  soul  may  the  soft  aspect  of  the  starry 

sky 
Come  with  a  lesson  like  the  dews  of  night, 
Refreshing  all  the  green  &  springlike  softness 
Of  Its  bright  early  Youth  ! 
Oh  think  when  gazing  on  those  living  lights 
How  many  Beauteous  Beings  they  have  shone  on 
Now  passed  away — aye,  even  from  Memory  ! 
While  they  shine  on — Type  of  Eternity 
And  of  all  those  deep  and  tender  feelings  which 

we  barter 
For  the  poor  toj^s  of  wealth,  ambition,  power  ! 
I  have  gazed  upon  thee  with  the  love  of  nature, 
Beautiful  Nature  !     When  we  see 
The  moon-lit  waves,  soft  morn,  or  fading  day. 
And  lift  our  Hearts  to  Him 
Who  breathed  upon  those  scenes  the  Breath  of 

Heaven 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  669 

And  gave  our  souls  to  feel  how  pure  and  bright 

The  Fountain  whenee  proceeds 

All  that  is  beautiful  in  this  visible  world, 

Its  moonlight  waters,  setting  suns  and  moons, 

That  breath  of  new-born  Joy  !    &  most  of  all 

How  beautiful  God's  creatures  !  when  like  Thee 

They  seem  an  emanation  from  that  world 

Where  purity  &  dove-eyed  innocence 

Dwell  in  unclouded  Light  ! 

Fair  Being,  it  is  not  thy  perfect  form  alone 

That  makes  thee  seem  to  me  a  Poet's  vision ; 

To  my  ear  thy  voice  is  Heaven's  own  music, 

Sad  yet   how  beautiful,    like  Autumn's  earliest 

breath 
Sighing  'mid  changing  leaves  &  drooping  flowers. 
Telling  of  Beauty  that  must  pass  away  ! 
Thy  soft  blue  eye  speaks  in  a  language  yet  more 

plain  to  me 
Of  Thoughts  &  feelings  deep  &  yet  most  precious. 
If  their  Holy  fire  is  never  kindled 
Of  strange  Gods  !    on  strange  altars  to  strange 

Gods. 
Oh  I  have  seen  the  Halls  of  Pomp  &  State, 
Temples  &  palaces  that  once  were  great. 
Have  seen  the  glories  of  the  wondrous  Dome, 
Have  gazed  on  Many  a  Prince's  Marble  Tomb, 
Heard  the  deep  music  of  the  Requeim  swell. 
Pealing  of  Royalty  the  pompous  knell : 
Seen  the  Time-honored  Banners  proudly  wave 
O'er  the  cold  form  now  sinking  in  the  grave. 
No  longer  now  in  that  shrunk  nerveless  hand 
The  scepter  glitters — an  enchanter's  wand  ! 
Oh  who  can  gaze  on  that  vain  idle  toy 
And  trust  their  all  to  cold  ambition's  Joy  ! 
Dark,  Dark  the  passions  that  had  left  their  trace 
On  every  feature  of  that  pallid  face. 
And  sparkling  in  funereal  torchlight  now 


670     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

The  crown  seems  mockery  on  that  ghastly  brow. 
The  Eye  turns  wearied  from  the  heartless  show 
To  the  blue  Mountains  tinged  with  sunset's  glow, 
And  memory  flies  to  one  low  place  of  rest, 
Fit  mansion  for  a  fond  and  faithful  breast.*. 
Near  a  small  Stream  the  ocean  waters  meet, 
Mingling  their  tides  with  music  passing  sweet. 
So  may  the  streams  that  wear  the  living  breast 
All  meet  and  mingle  in  Eternal  rest. 
I've  seen  the  dew-besprinkled  Holly's  wave 
In  mournful  beauty  o'er  that  quiet  grave ; 
There  lives  the  verdure  of  unfading  Bay, 
Fit  emblem  where  unfading  feelings  lay. 
Burial  Not  lost,  for  if  the  Spirit  fly 
To  brighter,  purer  mansions  in  the  sky. 
There  all  its  pure  affections  cannot  die  ! 
But  the  freed  Spirit  chilled  or  wounded  here, 
Returning  veinless  from  that  happier  sphere. 
May  watch  the  object  of  its  earthly  care, 
Tho'  tuned  for  others'  ears  the  voice  that  long 
To  it  seemed  soft  as  its  new  country's  song. 
Ev'n  when  it  feels  Its  own  forgotten  name 
Has  o'er  the  memory  lost  its  feeblest  claim. 
And  the  Dark  tide  of  cold  oblivion's  wave 
Rolled  its  dark  waters  o'er  that  lowly  grave, 
Still  It  would  steal  from  all  the  Joys  above. 
And  come  a  Dove-winged  messenger  of  Love, 
Watch  with  affection  that  can  never  cease. 
And  e'en  o'er  slumber  breathe  the  balm  of  peace. 
Not  vampyre-like  would  Its  soft  pinions  now 
Brood  over  &  gently  fan  th'  unconscious  brow. 
Wipe  gently  from  the  eye  the  dreaming  tear, 
And  breathe  soft  music  to  the  sleeping  ear. 
And  still  perchance  if  in  a  Spirit's  lot 
There  is  a  pang  in  being  quite  forgot. 
If  still  clings  to  the  soul  that  earthly  feeling, 

*  A  beautiful  grave  in  the  West  Highlands. 


VARIOUS    LETTERS  671 

O'er  the  eloscd  lid  the  spirit  may  be  stcaHng, 
To  the  loved  dreamer's  mind  past  scenes  reeall 
And  in  one  passing  thought  be  paid  for  all  ! 
All  that  the  weary  heart  at  last  w'^  crave 
Is  such  a  dwelling  as  that  oft-seen  grave, 
No  breathing  incenee  from  rich  Censers  flung, 
No  lofty  Requeim's  solemn  notes  be  sung, 
No  long-robed  Priest  with  Holy  water  near, 
For  what  so  Holy  as  affection's  tear  ? 
If  e'en  one  tear  be  on  the  cold  dust  shed 
Young  flowers  will  spring  upon  the  lowly  bed, 
And  one  low  sigh  be  to  the  parted  soul 
More   balm   than   all   the   sweets   from   Censers 

stole. 
But  if  nor  sigh  nor  tear  will  memory  spare. 
The  last  dear  offering  to  a  dying  prayer, 
May  evening's  dews  then  bathe  th'  unconscious 

brow 
That  throbs  &  burns  at  that  sad  sentence  now  ! 


Lord  Greenock  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  relative  to 
Payers  of  Orders  found  upon  the  Field  of 
Waterloo. 

Edinbubgh,  Septem'    19,  1842. 

My  dear  Lord  Duke, 

I  think  you  mentioned  to  me  some  time 
ago  that  you  had  in  your  possession  an  order  in 
my  handwriting  or  Signed  by  me  which  had 
been  picked  up  on  the  field  of  Waterloo,  &  which 
your  Grace  had  honored  by  preserving  as  a 
relick  of  that  memorable  day.  If  you  should 
still  possess  this  Document  and  can  without 
inconvenience  refer  to  it.  Your  Grace  would 
confer  a  great  favor  upon  me  if  you  will  have 
the  goodness  to  cause  a  Coi:>y  to  be  forwarded 
to  me  as  early  as  circumstances  may  permit. 


672     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

I  am  not  aware  of  the  date  or  the  purport  of 
this  order,  but  the  Duke  of  Welhngton  having 
expressed  a  desire  to  me  through  Colonel  Gur- 
wood  to  be  informed  of  the  Precise  hour  at 
which  certain  orders  were  circulated  to  the 
Cavalry  respecting  its  Movements  Previous! v  to 
the  battles  fought  on  the  16*^^,  17"\  &  18*^  of 
June,  1815,  it  is  possible  that  the  Document  in 
question  may  throw  some  light  on  the  Subject, 
and  be  the  means  of  enabling  me  to  satisfy  the 
Duke  in  this  particular,  better  than  I  could  do 
from  my  own  recollection,  for  during  the  hurry 
consequent  to  such  operations  I  had  no  time 
to  preserve  copies  of  the  orders  I  had  to  cir- 
culate, or  to  make  any  memoranda  respecting 
them. 

If  the  Superscription  be  preserved  it  should 
likewise  be  copied,  for  probably  upon  it  the 
hour  of  its  despatch  would  have  been  noted,  as 
well  as  the  address  of  the  General  or  other 
officer  to  whom  it  was  transmitted. 

With  many  apologies  for  giving  Your  Grace 
this  trouble,  I  remain.  My  dear  Lord  Duke, 
Your  Grace's  faithful  &  obed*  Serv*, 

Greenock. 


Letter  of  Orders  to  Sir  William  Ponsonhy,  found 
on  the  Field  of  Battle  at  Waterloo. 

Rec^  at  One  &  3/4  a.m.  16  June. 
Immediate. 

NiNOVE,  June  15,   1815. 

Memorandum. 

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VARIOUS    LP:TTERS  673 

tion  this  night  at  Ninove,  where  it  will  receive 
further  orders. 

The  Regiments  had  better  be  formed  on  the 
High  Road  leading  from  Ninove  to  Voordem, 
near  the  Quarters  of  part  of  the  Royal  Dragoons, 
between  Oultre  &  Ninove. 

Greenock,  L*  C 
A''  Q.M.  General. 

An  orderly  officer  to  be  sent  to  Ninove. 

Major-General 

Sir  W.  Ponsonby, 

Denderhoutem. 


Lord  Greenock  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll. 

Edinburgh,  March  7"^,  1843. 

My  dear  Lord  Duke, 

I  am  extremely  obliged  by  your  kindness 
in  entrusting  to  me  the  Document  found  on  the 
Field  of  Waterloo,  and  which  has  been  so  long 
in  your  Grace's  possession.  It  is  highly  interest- 
ing to  me,  as  shewing  the  precise  hour  at  which 
the  order  for  the  assembly  of  the  Cavalry  at 
Ninove  was  received  at  the  Quarters  of  Sir 
William  Ponsonby,  which  appears  by  a  Memor- 
andum on  the  Cover  to  have  been  one  &  3/4  a.m. 
on  the  16*'^  of  June,  as  it  has  been  the  subject 
of  some  controversy,  it  having  been  imagined  by 
some  that  the  Cavalry  ought  to  have  been  put 
in  motion  at  an  earlier  hour. 

I  have  availed  myself  of  your  Grace's  kind 
permission  to  forward  this  Document  to  London 
that  it  may  be  shewn  to  the  Duke  of  Wellington, 
with  strict  caution  respecting  its  due  preserva- 
tion, and  the  desire  that  it  may  be  sent  back  to 


674     INTIMATE    SOCIETY    LETTERS 

me  as  early  as  circumstanees  will  permit  with  a 
view  to  its  being  returned  to  your  Grace. 
Believe  me,  My  dear  Lord  Duke, 

Always  very  faithfully  yours, 

Greenock. 


The  letter  of  Orders  to  Sir  William  Ponsonby 
is  herewith  returned  to  the  Duke  of  Argyll  with 
Lord  Greenock's  compliments  and  best  thanks. 

12  Cablton  Place,  April  18"^,  1843. 


LOVE    &    REASON 

'TwAS  in  the  Summer  time  so  sweet 

When  hearts  &  flowers  are  both  in  Season 

That  who  of  all  the  world  sh*^  meet 
One  early  dawn  but  Love  &  Reason. 

Love  told  his  dream  of  yesternight 

While  Reason  talk'd  about  the  weather; 

The  Morn  in  sooth  was  fair  &  bright. 
And  on  they  took  their  way  together. 

The  Boy  in  many  a  gambol  flew, 
While  Reason  like  a  Juno  stalk 'd 

And  from  her  portly  figure  threw 
A  lengthened  shadow  as  she  walk'd. 

No  wonder  Love  as  on  they  past 
Sh^  find  that  sunny  Morning  chill, 

For  still  the  shadow  Reason  cast 
Fell  on  the  Boy  &  cool'd  him  still. 

In  vain  he  tried  his  wings  to  warm 
And  find  a  pathway  not  so  dim, 

For  still  the  Maid's  gigantic  form 
Would  pass  between  the  Sun  &  him. 

This  must  not  be,  said  little  Love, 

The  Sun  was  made  for  more  than  you. 

So  turning  thro'  a  Myrtle  Grove 
He  bade  the  Portly  Nymph  adieu. 

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Now  gaily  roves  the  laughing  boy 

O'er  many  a  mead  and  many  a  stream, 

In  every  breeze  inhaling  joy 

And  drinking  bliss  in  every  beam. 

From  all  the  gardens,  all  the  bowers. 
He  culled  the  many  sweets  they  shaded, 

And  ate  the  fruits  &  smelt  the  flowers 
Till  taste  was  gone  &  odour  faded. 

But  now  the  Sun  in  pomp  of  noon 

Look'd  blazing  o'er  the  parched  plains. 

Alas  !  the  boy  grew  languid  soon. 
And  fever  thrill'd  thro'  all  his  veins. 

The  dew  forsook  his  baby  brow. 

No  more  with  vivid  bloom  he  smil'd : 

Oh  !    where  was  tranquil  Reason  now 
To  cast  her  shadow  o'er  the  Child  ? 

Beneath  a  green  &  aged  Palm 

His  feet  at  length  for  shelter  turning. 

He  saw  the  Nymph  reclining  calm. 
With  brow  as  cool  as  his  was  burning. 

Oh  !    take  me  to  that  bosom  cold. 
In  murmurs  at  her  feet  he  said, 

And  Reason  op'd  her  garment's  fold 
And  flung  it  round  his  fevered  head. 

He  felt  her  bosom's  icy  touch. 

And  soon  it  lull'd  his  pulse  to  rest. 

For,  ah  !  the  chill  was  quite  too  much 
And  Love  expir'd  on  Reason's  breast  ! 

T.  Moore. 


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INDEX 


Abercorn,  Lady,  655 

Abercorn,   Lord,   235 ;     his   place 

in  Essex,  229 
Abercromby,  Sir  Robert,  507 
Academy,  Royal,  1908,  121 
Achacharn,  Alex.  Niven  of,  90 
Achard,  Madame,  538 
Achenbreck,  72 
Acliinagole,  73 
Achnacress,  91 
Acland,  Dr.,  480 
Act  for  free  voting  in  Parliament, 

10 
Act  of  Treaty,  debate  on,  29 
Adderbury,  290,  291 
Addison's  play  Cato,  224 
Addison,  the  Rev.,  482 
Admiralty,  rights  to  all  that  was 

cast  on  shore,  88 
Agnew,  Col.  Sir  Andrew,  67 
Aigblanche,  Marquis  d',  202,  263, 

264 
Aikman,  Mr.,  107 
Ailesbury,   Lady,    139,   441,   442, 

446,  501 
Air,  146 
Aird,  437 

Airds,  the  Sheriff,  68,  73 
Aix-en-Provence,  330,  338 
Aix-la-Chapelle,  130,  272^  273 
Akenhead,  333 
Albany,  Count,  415,  416 
Albany,  Countess,  420 
Allan,  nephew  of  Mr.,  507 
Alnwick,  297 
Alnwick  Castle,  172 
Altona,  Offensen  near,  241 
Ambassador,  French,  407  ;   Span- 
ish, 407 
Ambassadors      at      all      general 

ti-eaties.  Act  for  having,  36 
Amelia,   Princess,   246,   297,   299, 

399 
America,    France   and    England's 


dispute  in,  232  ;  levies  to  be 
sent  to,  429  ;  Highland  Regi- 
ments in,  435  ;  return  of 
George  and  William  Campbell, 
442 

American  Colonial  affairs,  483 

American  sufferers,  support  of,212 

Amherst,  Lord,  145 

Ancaster,  Duchess  of,  299,  386 

Ancrum,  Lord,  131,  453 

Angers,  school  at,  337 

Angus,  302 

Annandale,  Marquis  of,  9,  23,  26, 
34,  37,  38,  39 

Anne,  Lady,  276,  290 

Antoinetten  ruh,  243 

Arblay,  Mme.  d',  564 

Archduchess  of  Austria,  gracious- 
ness  of  the,  269,  272 

Archduke  of  Austria,  406,  423 

Archibald,  Lady,  387 

Archivaig,  Archibald  Campbell  of, 
90 

Ardalinisli,  Peter  Campbell  of,  90 

Ardchattan,  parisli  of,  463 

Ardchellans,  Corn",  73 

Ardent,  the,  ship  taken  by 
Spaniards,  206 

Ardgowan's  Battalion,  450 

Ardincaplo  Castle,  471,  472,  474, 
475,  481,  637 

Ardpatreck,  665 

.\rdres,  193 

Ardura,  90,  91 

Argyle,  Duke  Archibald  of,  70 

Argyll,  Anno  Cunningham,  Dow- 
ager Duchess  of,  480 

Argyll,  Duchess  of,  85,  386,  387, 
431  ;  letter  to  Earl  of  Suffolk, 
1()0  ;  letters  from  James  Fer- 
rier,  85,  86,  212;  letters  to 
James  Ferrier,  194  ;  letters 
from  Andrew  Stuart.  See 
under  Stuart  (Andrew) 


677 


678 


INDEX 


Argyll,  John  2nd  Duke  of.  Fore- 
word to  letters  from,  1  ;  con- 
fidential opinion  about  afTairs 
in  Edinburgh,  1  ;  Dukedom  of 
Greenwich,  I  ;  succeeded  to 
Dukedom,  2 ;  father  placed 
Scottish  crown  on  King 
William's  head,  2  ;  appointed 
Lord  Commissioner  to  Parlia- 
ment of  Scotland,  2  ;  made  an 
English  earl,  2  ;  in  campaign 
against  the  French  in  1706,  3  ; 
leading  a  division  in  1708,  3  ; 
at  the  head  of  the  "  BufTs  "  at 
Oudenarde  and  Malplaquet,  4  ; 
present  at  Scots  Union  Parlia- 
ment, 4  ;  most  trusted  leader 
of  Presbyterianism  in  Scotland, 
4 ;  prompt  action  ensures 
Protestant  succession,  4  ;  made 
Commander-in-Chief  in  Scot- 
land 1715,  4 ;  scattering 
Stuart's  forces  at  Sheriffmuir, 
4 ;  paramount  influence  in 
Scotland,  4  ;  driving  Walpole 
from  office  in  1742,  4 ;  died 
1743,  4  ;  monument  in  West- 
minster Abbey,  4  ;  great  flame 
raised  against,  6  ;  letters  to 
Queen  Anne,  8,  13,  14  ;  letters 
to  Godolphin,  9,  12,  15,  18,  21, 
24,  25,  26,  28,  29,  32,  33,  35,  39, 
40,  41  ;  resigning  Commission, 
14 ;  will  act  for  Protestant 
succession  though  resigning, 
15,  17  ;  opinions  as  to  affairs 
in  Scotland,  15 ;  informing 
Lord  Godolphin  that  the  troops 
in  Scotland  are  insufficient,  18  ; 
asking  for  Peerage  of  England, 
20  ;  list  of  persons  to  be  em- 
ployed by  Queen  Anne,  drawn 
up  by,  21  ;  insulted,  55  ;  in- 
structions to  his  factor,  Donald 
Campbell  of  Aird,  89  ;  health, 
203 ;  and  Greenwich,  272  ; 
Lady  Caroline  Dalkeith  co- 
heir of,  290 

Argyll,  John  5th  Duke  of,  145, 
292,  433,  434,  438,  439,  442, 
443,  444,  446,  448,  449,  450, 
451,  455,  456,  469,  494,  495, 
497,  498,  499,  500,  503,  505, 
506,  508,  511,  514,  519,  520; 
death,  471 

Argyll,  George  6th  Duke  of,  476 


Argyll,  John  7th  Duke  of,  65, 
66,  67,  69,  71,  75,  436,  437, 
444,  446,  451,  452,  456,  472, 
473,  474,  475,  478,  494,  495, 
496,  497,  498,  499,  500,  502, 
503,  505,  506,  508,  509,  510, 
511,  512,  514,  515,  518,  519, 
520,  558.  See  also  Campbell, 
Lord  John 

Argyll,  George  8th  Duke  of,  giving 
up  rights  of  HoljTood  Palace  to 
Queen  Victoria,  78 

Argyll's,  Earl,  invasion  of  Scot- 
land, 2 

Argyll,  Marquis,  executed,  1 

Argyll  estates,  population  of,  95 

Argyll  House,  446  ;  saved  from 
Wilkes'  mob,  125 

Argyllshire  men,  65,  66,  67,  68 

Argyllshire,  hereditary  Lord-Lieu- 
tenancy, 248 

Argyllshire  Militia,  65,  71,  464, 
468,  473 

Argyllshire  Highlanders,  67 

Arquebusiers,  King  of  the,  379,  380 

Arran,  petitions  and  representa- 
tions, 133 

Arran,  429,  430,  431 

Artern,  240,  241 

Athol,  Duke  of,  32,  50,  61,  62,  147 

Atlay,  J.  B.,  480 

Aubigny,  peerage  of,  193 

Auchnacarry,  63 

Auerstadt,  Duke  of  Brunswick 
mortally  wounded  at  battle  of, 
234,  235,  241 

Augusta  Campbell,  Lady.  See 
under  Campbell 

Augusta,  daughter  of  Duchess  of 
Brunswick,  258,  259 

Augusta,  Duchess  of  Brunswick, 
218;  birth  of,  220;  early  im- 
pressions, 221  ;  early  taste, 
223,  224,  227,  228,  252,  274, 
280,  303,  308  ;  godmother  to 
Lady  Gower's  child,  243 

Augusta's,  Princess  Royal,  fancy 
name,  131 

Austria,  augmentation  of  power 
of,  265 

Austria,  Emperor  of,  274,  275, 
277,  279,  282,  286,  287,  404 

Austria,  Empress  of,  404,  412 

Austrians  under  Duke  of  Bruns- 
wick, 235 

Avon,  the,  6,  7 


INDEX 


679 


Ayrshire  oloction,  145 

Badon,  519 

Bagot,  Sir  William,  141 

Baillie,  Mr.,  151 

Baiquancoiirt,  de,  102 

Baird,  Mr.,  356 

Bal  MasquiS  in  Vienna,  274,  275 

Balevcolan,  403 

Ballimores,  Col.,  73 

Ballooning,  638 

Banbury,  Lord,  439 

Bandon,  502 

Bantis,  singing  of  the,  654 

Barbadoes,  Governor  of,  204 

Barcaldine  (Argyllshire),  4G3 

Barfleur  de  la  Mark,  Monsieur,  273 

Barhani  Downs,  494 

Barnacarry,  73,  75 

Barnacarry,   Archibald   Campbell 

of,  75 
Barons  Act,  underhand  promoting 

of  the,  10 
Barra,  correspondence  on  tlie  Tsle 

of,  86 
Barramore,  Lady,  297 
Barrington,  Lord,  387 
Basle,  385 
Bath,  266 
Bath,  Lord,  297 
Battoni,     portrait     of     Dvike     of 

Hamilton  by  Pompeio,  330,  413 
Bavaria,  death  of  Elector  of,  265 
Bayley,  Sir  George,  638 
Beauchamp,  Lord,  142,  245 
Beauveron,  Comto  de,  344 
Bedford,  Duke  of,  135,  309 
Bedley,  120 
Belleislo,    taking   of   two    French 

liners  at,  232 
Belmont  Lodge,  302 
Beneid,  Commonty  of,  91 
Hennit,  Muster  Master,  30 
Berlin,  260,  280,  388,  399,  521,  532 
Berlin,  Princess  of  Orange  on  her 

way  to,  246 
Borne,  344,  579 
Berzen,  Mme.  do,  275 
Betty,  Lady,  332,  334,  335,  336, 

338,  345,  352,  365,  431 
Beverley,    Lady,    522,    533,    535, 

536,  542 
Beverley,  Lord,  525,  530,  542 
Bienne,  Lake  of,  519 
Birmingham,  308 
Birnie,  Captain,  120 


Birrnoy,  Captain  Hamilton,  154 
Black   Eaglo,  order  of,  conferred 

on  Duko  of  Brunswick,  233 
niiiir,  68 
IJIairfottio,  68 
lilakonoy,  Gonoral,  65 
Blonliniin,  167  ;  King  and  Queen's 

visit  to,  226 
Blythwood,  Lord  John  Campbell's 

visit  to,  449 
Bobby,  Mr.  Pichell,  655 
Bogino,  Count,  261 
Bohemia,  404 
Bohemia,  Fief  of,  265 
Bolingbroko,  Lord,  136 
Bologna,  189 
Bonn,   Mr.    G.    Grossman's   letter 

from,  265,  266 
Bonomis  and  Nasmith,  455 
Borringdon,  Lord,  655 
Boscawen,  Admiral,  232 
Bosset,  President,  213 
Boswell,  James,  97 
Bothwell  Castlo,  97,  121 
Bottyt,  Miss,  136 
Boulogne,  preparation  for  the  in- 
vasion of  England  at,  518 
Bourke,  family  name  of  Earl  of 

Mayo,  122,  126 
Boutems,  Madame,  537 
Boyd,  General,  255 
Boyes,  Mr.,  152,  153,  154 
Boyn,  Lady  M.,  285 
Bradshaw,  Mr.,  142 
Brand,  Mr.,  177 
Brandenburg,  397 
Brandon,  Duko  of  Hamilton  and, 

331,  332,  333 
Broadalbane,  Lord,  450,  462 
Bridgeman,  Lady,  271 
Bridgomans,  the,  268 
Bridget, Earl  Mayo's  daughter,  245 
Bridgewator,  Duke  of,  308 
Brigiithclmstone,  165,  194 
Brionno,  Madame  de,  374 
Broglie,  Due  do,  567 
Brougliam,  Mr.,  475 
Broughton,    Lady,    in    Lausanne, 

385,  386 
Brown,  Charles,  agent  to  Sir  John 

Stewart,  107 
Bruce,  Lord,  259 
Bruce,  Robert,  635 
Brudenell,  Mr.  James,  293 
Brunetta,  fortress  of,  264 
Brunswick,  297,  298,  299 


680 


INDEX 


Brunswick  Duchy  almost  out  of 

debt,  257 
Brunswick,    Duke    of,    132,    231, 

235,  255  ;   letter  to  the  Duchess 

of    Hamilton    with    account    of 

death  of,  236 
Brunswick,  letters  to  Duchess  of 

Argyll  from  Augusta,  Duchess 

of,  242-260 
Brunswick,  Prince  Ferdinand  of, 

131,  226,  227,  389;    born,  231  ; 

succeeds  his  father,  234 
Brunswick,   Prince   Frederick   of, 

389 
Brunswick,  Princess  of,  300 
Brussels,    109,    130  ;     anonymous 

letter  to  Duchess  of  Hamilton 

and  Argyll  from  a  lady  in,  208 
Buchanan,  Captain,  120,  151 
Buchanan,  Mr.,  151 
Buchanan  of  Drumekeln,  Mr.,  504 
Bude,  General,  656 
Bunessan,  John  McLean  of,  90 
Buonaparte,  Napoleon,  326,  327, 

441,  457,  515,  517 
Burgermasterof  Sangerhausen,241 
Burgoyne,    letter    to   Duchess   of 

Argyll  from  Mrs.,  165,  174 
Burgoyne,  JVIr.,  176 
Burke,  Mr.  Edmund's  letter  to  the 

Duchess  of  Argyll,  214 
Burke,  Mr.  William,  139 
Burnett,  Mr.,  667 
Burney,  Dr.,  564 
Burney,  Miss,  565 
Bushy,  309 
Bushy  Park,  169 
Bute,  Lord,  370 
Bute,  brothers  of  Lord,  177 
Bute  family,  the,  298 
Buttstadt,  239 

Cabriolet,  young  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton driving  a,  339 

Cadogan,  Gteneral,  63 

Cairndow,  85 

Calais?,  193,  514 

Caldwell,  Lady,  189 

Caligula,  cameo  of,  414 

Cambaceres,  518 

Camelia,  216,  447 

Campbell,  Alexander,  462 

Campbell,  Sir  Alexander,  503 

Campbell,  Archibald,  292 

Campbell,  Archibald,  of  Airds,  73, 
75,  503 


Campbell,  Archibald,  of  Stone- 
field,  75 

Campbell,  Archibald,  Tacksman 
of  Seirphein  and  Ardchivaig,  90 

Campbell,  Captain  Allan,  of  the 
Glenaray  Militia,  72,  73,  447  ; 
account  of  expenses,  76,  77 

Campbell,  Charles,  503 

Campbell,  Colin,  Chamberlain  of 
Roseneath,  92 

Campbell,  Colonel  Dugald,  435 

Campbell,  Donald,  of  Airds,  in- 
structions from  Duke  of  Argyll, 
89  ;  letter  to  Duchess  of  Argyll, 
138 

Campbell,  Donald,  of  Sonchuhan, 
Inverary,  94,  462 

Campbell,  General,  64,  65,  292 

Campbell,  George,  242 

Campbell,  Governor,  68 

Campbell,  James,  letter  to  Pro- 
vost of  Inverary,  63 

Campbell,  John,  Tacksman  of 
Kelimore,  90,  462 

Campbell,  John,  Tacksman  of 
Torghormaig,  91,  462 

Campbell,  Lady  /Vrchibald,  657 

Campbell,  Lady  Augusta,  171, 
174,  175,  192,  194,  196,  207, 
209,  214,  215,  253,  255,  259, 
276,  278,  281,  293,  320,  401, 
406,  409,  420,  426,  434,  451, 
521,  637 

Campbell,  Lady  Charlotte,  278, 
403,  420,  452,  453,  454,  468, 
495,  499,  521  ;  letter  to  Camelia, 
654 

Campbell,  Lady  Harriet,  297 

Campbell,  Lady  John,  letters 
from,  653,  662,  665 

Campbell,  Lady  William,  212 

Campbell,  Lord  John  (see  also 
Argyll,  7th  Duke  of),  137,  297  ; 
and  cholera,  480,  481  ;  mother 
of,  property  in  Virginia,  483  ; 
future  wife  of,  489-493  ;  escape 
from  French  in  woman's  clothes, 
520  ;  escape  from  Baden,  538  ; 
picture  of,  559  ;  character  of, 
632  ;  letter  to  Miss  Joan  Glas- 
sell,  634-636,  also  200,  206, 
441,  444,  448,  449 

Campbell,  Lord  Frederick,  145, 
154,  212,  443,  457,  470,  471, 
474,  500,  502 

Campbell,  Lome,  476 


INDEX 


681 


Campbell,  Major,  450 

Campbell,  Major-Greneral,  (54,  (io, 

66,  67,  73,  74 
Campbell,    Miss,    212,    216,    281, 

283,  284,  285 
Campbell,  Mr.,  74 
Campbell,  Mr.  David,  73 
Campbell,     Mr.      John,      Deputy 

Chamberlain  of  Argyllshire,  72, 

503 
Campbell,    Mr.    Walter,    Deputy 

Ranger  of  Windsor  Park,  124 
Campbell,  Mrs.,  27U 
Campbell,  Mrs.  Donald,  the  house 

of,  289 
Campbell  of  Ardkinglass,  Lady,  215 
Campbell  of  Braghon,  Mr.,  634 
Campbell  of  Shawfield  and  Islay, 

124,    162,    163,    178,    179,    180, 

181,  183,  184,  185,  186,  504 
Campbell,  Oswald,  74 
Campbell,  Peter,  of  Ardalinisli,  90 
Campbell,  population  of  lordsliip 

of,  95 
Campbell,  Robert,  472,  474,  475 
Campbell,    Sir    James    of    Aken- 

brake,  70 
Campbell,  William,  442 
Campbelltown,  65 
Campelles,  Mr.,  259,  471 
Cample,  Mr.,  256 
Canada,  232 

Candia,  Nelson's  victory  off,  327 
Canning,  letters  from  George,  216, 

217 
Capel,  Lady  Elizabeth,  310 
Cardinal,   Lady  Derby  dining  at 

the  house  of  the,  279 
Carignano,   Prince    and    Princess 

of,  374 
Carlisle,  family,  177 
Carlisle,  Lady,  275,  294,  310 
Carlisle,  Lord,  202 
Carlton  House,  Mrs.  FitzHerbert 

at,  255 
Carmichael  of  Maudslie,  Mr.,  151 
Carnelm,  446 

Caroline  of  Brunswick,  227  ;  mar- 
riage   with    Prince    Regent   of 

England,  260 
Caroline  Matilda  of  Denmark,  246, 

252,  388 
Carran,  River,  66 
Carter,  letter  to  Miss  Talbot  from 

Mrs.,  229 
Cary,  Mr.,  expelled,  254 

VOL.   II 


Cassel,  251 

Cassel,  Landgravine  of,  399 

Cafttlomilk  family,  tho,  120 

Cathcart,  Lord,  131,  309 

Cathedral  of  Notre  Dame,  Peu-is, 
515 

Cato,  Addison's  play,  224 

Cavalier  Party,  53 

Cavendish,  Lord  John,  305 

Cavour,  Mmo.  de,  546 

Cavour,  Monsieur  de,  547 

Cazonove,  Mmo.,  348,  523 

Cecilia,  Lady,  655 

Cenis,  Mont,  271,  423 

Chamberlain,  letter  to  Duchess  of 
Argyll  from  the,  133 

Chamb('Ty,  427 

Chancell(jr  of  France,  102 

Chandos,  Duchess  of,  268,  269 

Charity  Schools  in  Mull  and  Mor- 
vern,  94 

Charlemagne's  33rd  descendant, 
126 

Charles,  loss  of  only  son  of  Prince, 
246 

Charles,  Princess.  249 

Charles,  son  of  Duchess  of  Bruns- 
wick, health  of,  242  ;  dying, 
247 

Charles  X.  of  France,  434 

Charlotte,  Queen,  250 

Charter  of  Douglas  Estate,  147, 
148 

Chartres,  younger  Mr.,  154 

Chastelrault,  Duchy  of,  193,  194 

Chatelaine  near  Geneva,  363,  366, 
367,  370,  373,  375,  379, 384,  409 

Chatham's  strong  mode  of  ex- 
pression. Lord,  443 

Chatsworth,  176;  satirical  ac- 
count of  life  at,  314 

Chayant,  command  of  Du,  206 

Choshiro,  137 

Chesterfield,  prejudices  of  Lord, 
402 

Child,  Miss,  285 

Chillon,  639 

Chishohn,  the  command  of  Mr.,  72 

Choisoul,  Duke  of,  100,  102,  322 

Christian  VII.  of  Denmark,  388 

Chi'istin,  Mr.,  in  prison  in  Geneva, 
530 

Chuquet,  concerning  winter  cam- 
paign against  the  Froncii,  235 

Church,  Mr.,  332 

Clackmannan,  438 

23 


682 


INDEX 


Clarence,  Duke  of,  letters  to  Lady 
Susan  Stewart,  306 

Clark,  Colonel,  304 

Clavering,  Colonel,  247 

Clavering,  Lady,  216,  247,  305,471 

Clayton,  Colonel,  63 

Clermont,  336 

Clermont,  Lady,  322 

Clermont,  University  of,  337 

Cleves,  272 

Clidsdale  (Clydesdale),  146,  147, 
150,  151,  156,  158,  170,  173 

Clinton,  Lord  Thomas,  177 

Clive,  Mr.,  380 

Clunyth,  86 

Cobham  and  McKerr,  Dragoons 
of,  67 

Cockburn,  Sir  James,  170,  180 

Cockburne,  Mr.,  Foreword  to 
letters  from,  1  ;  letter  to  Lord 
Godolphin,  5 

Coigni,  M.  de,  273 

Coinder,  Mr.,  536 

Coke,  Lady  Mary,  96,  125,  126, 
127,  128,  218,  219,  291,  292, 
295,  297,  298,  300,  303,  308,  446 

Coke,  Poll,  218,  267,  272,  290 

Coke  of  Norfolk,  127 

Colebrook,  Sir  George,  151 

Colleda,  240 

Colquhoun,  Major,  508-512 

Colquhoun,  Provost  of  Dunbar- 
ton,  439 

Colquhoun,  Sir  James,  85,  504 

Colquhoun,  Sir  James'  son,  501 

Congleton,  270 

Congress  at  Philadelphia,  321 

Conseil  de  Depeches,  100 

Constable's  Magazine,  664 

Content,  the  transport,  494 

Conti,  Prince  of,  167 

Conway  family,  176 

Conway,  General,  118,  139,  145, 
656 

Conway,  IVIr.,  245,  302 

Cooper,  Mr.,  254 

Cooper,  Sir  Grey,  255 

Coote  Castle,  122,  244 

Cope,  Arabella  Diana,  323,  325 

Cope,  Sir  John,  323 

Coply,  Col.,  497 

Coppet,  M.  Necker's  property, 
557 ;  meeting-place  of  many 
Emigres,  558,  561;  former 
owners  of,  568,  569;  descrip- 
tion of  interior,  569 


Corbin,  Mr.,  321 

Corinamorer,  woods  of,  92 

"  Corinne,"  Mme.  de  Stael's  novel, 

558 
Corkamil,  tenants  of,  88 
Corkamull,  91 
Cornwall,  Mr.,  142,  143 
Corri,  M.  and  Mme.,  454 
Corrieliam,  73 
Corsican  Ogre,  the,  561 
Corstofine,  72 
Courland,  Duchess  of,  543 
Courts  of  Edinburgh,  reversal  of 

judgment  of,  98 
Courts,      small      German,      274 ; 

Russian,  277 
Coutts,  437 

Coventry,  Lady,  291,  292,  295 
Coventry,  Lord,  295 
Cowal  Hills,  659 
Cowper,  Lady,  415 
Crawfurd,  Mr.,  142,  150,  151,  178, 

183,  184,  185,  187,  305 
Crefeld,  Battle  of,  231 
Cricket  in  Geneva,  366 
Crinan  Canal  Company  meeting, 

444 
Cromarty,  Earl  of,  30 
Cromwell,   executing   Marquis   of 

Argyll,  1 
Crossener,  Mr.  G.,  265 
Culloden,  71,  433 
Cumberland,  Duke  of,  66,  67,  71, 

73,  228,  229,  293 
Cunningham,  Sir  Wm.,  151 
Cunnynghame,  George,  637 
Czartoryski,  Prince,  432 

Dalhousie,  Lady,  666 

Dalkeith,  302,  510 

Dalkeith,  Francis,  Earl  of,  290 

Dalkeith,  Lady,  132,  290 

Dalkeith  House,  453 

Dalmally,  659 

Dalrymple,  Lord,  337 

Dalrymple,  Sir  David,  106 

Dalziell,  120,  121 

Dalziell,  Lady,  131 

Damer,  Mrs.,  446,  501 

Danjon,    letter    in    French    from 

Monsieur,  130,  131 
Danube,  journey  down  the,  520, 

532 
Darien       Colonization       Scheme, 

Scotland's,  60 
Darnley,  Lord,  655 


INDEX 


683 


Dauphin,  the,  100 

Davidson,  Captain,  510 

Davidson,  John,  107,  110,  13«, 
146,  147,  ir>5,  187,  191,  I'M, 
382,  395,  417,  418  ;  letter  to 
Duchess  of  Ai-gyll,  152 

Davidson,  Mr.,  letter  from  An- 
drew Stuart,  98 

Degenfeld,  Count,  Dutch  Am- 
bassador, 404,  407 

"  Delphine,"  Mme.  de  Stael's 
novel,  6G3 

Denmark,  Christian  VII.  of,  388 

Derby,  Lady,  124,  128,  196,  202, 
207,  210,  214,  216,  218,  231, 
248,  249,  250,  252,  253,  254, 
256,  259,  260,  267,  309,  322, 
431  ;   her  letters,  267-289 

Derby,  Lord,  123,  202,  248,  252, 
253,  269,  276,  287,  288,  385 

Diebisch,  woods  of,  237 

Dodington,  224 

Dolback,  Baron,  103,  112 

Dolben,  Sir  William,  141 

Domestic  documents,  78 

Donald,  Mr.  John,  448,  510,  511 

Donat,  Madame,  owner  of  Epenen, 
556 

Dorset,  Duke  of,  171,  267,  322, 
324,  325,  326 

Douglas,  Duchess  of,  113,  114,  332 

Douglas,  Duke  of,  35,  96,  97,  161, 
162 

Douglas,  Lord  A.,  290 

Douglas,  Mr.,  181,  182,  184,  190 

Douglas  Case,  letters  relating  to 
the,  96,  107,  190,  416 

Doutremont,  Monsieur,  130,  193, 
194 

Down  Place,  207 

Dresden,  279,  393,  398-400,  403, 
521,  532 

Drumakeln,  Mr.  Buchanan  of,  504 

Drummond,  Robert,  443 

Drummond's  Bank,  451 

Dublin,  123 

Dun's  Hotel,  New  Town,  86 

Dunbarton,  65,  449,  475,  510; 
erroneous  spelling  of,  503 

Dunbarton  Castle,  Commissioner 
of,  25,  38 

Dunbarton,  Provost  Colquhoun 
of,  439 

Dunbartonshire,  70,  438,  477, 
501,  503,  504,  505,  507,  508 

Duncan,  Dr.,  291 


Dundas,  Sir  L.,  438 

Dundass,  Mr.  Sollicitor,  116,  182, 

440,  506,  507 
Dundass,  Provost,  170 
Dunkirk,  441 
Dunmore,  Lady,  387 
Dunmore,  Lord,  434 
Dunmore  Park,  434 
Dunning,  Mr.,  1 17 
Dunollie,  94 
Dysart,  Countess  of,  2 
Dysart,  Lord,  295 

Eahng,  216 

Eardale,  parish  of,  463 

East  India  Company,  139 

East  India  ships'  safe  arrival,  203 

East  Indies,  364 

Edgecombe,  Lady  and  Lord,  303 

Edgecombe,  Lord  Mount,  656 

Edgworth,  Mr.,  in  Verdun  prison, 

532 
Edinburgh,  tumult  in,  51  ;  Queen's 

troops    suppressing    tumult    in, 

51,  57,  65,  67,  69 
Edmondson,  Mr.,  246 
Edmonstone,  Sir  Arcliibald,  507 
Edridge's  drawing  of  Lord  John 

Campbell,  477,  559 
Edward,  Prince,  in  Addison's  play 

Cato,  224 
Edwin,  Lady  Charlotte,  101,  120, 

121,  244-248,  293,  331,  420 
Effingham,  Lady,  172 
Eglington,  Lady,  306 
Eglington,  Lord,  136,  294 
Eisleben,  241 

Elden,  opinion  of  Lord,  666 
Election,    a    Scottish,    a    century 

ago,  503  ;    lists  of  voters  in  tlie 

Scottish,  507,  508,  512,  513 
Elector  and  Electress  of  Saxony, 

400 
Electress  Dowager  of  Saxony,  400 
Elizabeth,  Princess,  of  Saxony,  400 
Elliot's  Britisli  Regiment,  234 
Ellison,  General,  505 
Elphinstoun,  Lady,  189 
Elphinstoun,  Lord,  150,  189,  438 
Enghien,  arrest  of  Due  d',  518 
England,  treaty  between  Prussia 

and,  232 
English  vessels  in  Leith  Roads,  3 
English  vessels'  officers  seized  on 

piracy      charge,      3 ;       captain 

hanged,  3 


684 


INDEX 


Ensigna  in  Dutch  Expedition 
going  home  on  promotion,  499 

Epenen,  531 

Episcopalian  Church,  60 

Ernest,  Prince,  249,  250,  270 

Errington,  Mr.,  in  Lausanne,  385 

Esher,  310 

Essex,  Lord,  221 

Essex,  Lord  Abercorn's  place  in, 
229 

Essex's,  the,  310 

Estaing's  fleet,  d',  204 

Esterhazy,  Prince,  407 

Etersleben,  241 

Etna,  501 

Eton,  Duke  of  Hamilton  going  to, 
333  ;  a  rebellion  at,  255 

Etr6e,  Marshal  d',  102 

Ewing,  James,  undertaker,  92 

Exemption  claimed  by  volun- 
teers from  ballot  for  the  army  of 
reserve  and  militia,  letter  anent 
the,  460 

Expenses  account  for  saving  a 
pipe  of  wine,  88,  89 

Exportation  of  beef  and  pork, 
Act  for  encouraging  the,  36 

F.,  Lady,  176 

Fabry,  Madame  Am6]ie,  555 

Falconer,  Mr.,  192 

Falkirk,  65,  66 

Farquhar,  Mr.  W.,  letters  to 
Duchess  of  Argyll,  195,  196, 
197,  205,  206 

Fassfern,  Fort  WiUiam,  87 

Faucitt,  General,  253 

Featherstone,  Sir  Harry,  192,  415, 
420 

Ferdinand,  Prince,  167 

Fergusson,  Donald,  72,  445 

Fergusson,  Dr.,  481 

Fergusson,  Sir  Adam,  146 

Ferrier,  James,  510,  512,  514; 
grandfather  to  Professor  Ferrier 
of  St.  Andrews,  85  ;  letters  to 
Duchess  of  Argyll,  85,  86,  212  ; 
letter  from  Roderick  McNeil, 
87  ;  letter  to  Roderick  Mc- 
Neil of  Barra,  88  ;  letter  from 
Duchess  of  Argyll,  210  ;  his 
vote,  438  ;  letter  from  Duke  of 
Argyll,  439  ;  sent  to  London, 
44U  ;  letters  to  Duke  of  Argyll, 
448,504,505;  his  attachment 
to  the   House   of  Argyll,   469  ; 


letter  to  Lord  Frederick  Camp- 
bell, 504,  505 

Ferrier,  Sir  William,  447 

Fetes,  the  Austrian  Emperor's,  274 

FitzHerbert,  Mrs.,  at  Carlton 
House,  255,  658 

Fitzroy's,  Mr.,  behaviour,  256 

Fleet  off  and  in  Plymouth,  195  ; 
driven  in  by  French  and 
Spaniards,  205 

Fletchers  of  Salton,  the,  60,  61 

Florence,  191,  215,  329,  402,  413, 
420,  426 

Florentin,  Comte  de  St.,  102 

Florian,  Monsieur  de,  364 

Fontainebleau,  105 

Footguards,  Subalterns  in,  341 

Forbes  &  Co.,  Sir  William,  86 

Forbes,  Sir  William,  438 

Forfar,  Lord,  22 

Fort  Augustus,  taking  of,  68 

Fort  William,  63,  67 

Fortescue,  Mr.,  392 

Fox,  Lady  Mary,  308 

Fox,  Mr.,  432  ;  debate  on  French 
War,  524 

Foxites,  440 

France,  young  Duke  of  Hamilton 
in,  193  ;  sentiments  of,  264 ; 
women  of  fashion  in,  273 ; 
Duchess  of  Hamilton  going  to, 
304 ;  View  of  Society  and 
Manners  in,  329 

Frances,  daughter  of  Lady  Dal- 
keith, 290 

Francfort,  279 

Franking  letters,  314 

Fraser,  Greneral,  142 

Frederick  II.  of  Prussia,  231,  232, 
246  ;  poem  in  praise  of  Prince 
Ferdinand,  233,  234 

Frederick,  Lord,  441 

Frederick,  Prince,  250 

Frederick,  Prince  of  Hesse,  251 

Fredericksburg  in  Virginia,  483 

French  frauds,  97 

French,  Mrs.,  217 

Frogmore,  451 

Frome,  291 

Fulerton,  Dr.,  133 

G.,  Lady,  217 

Gainsborough,  portrait  by,  121 
Gallizine,  Prince,  343,  363,  380 
Galloway,    Lord,    107,    108,    121, 
307,  326,  336,  337,  338 


INDEX 


685 


Galway,  473 

Gamesters  of  England,  France, 
Germany,  etc.,  273 

Garde  Meuble  de  Roy,  Paris,  51fi 

Gardener,  arrest  of,  520 

Gartmore,  cousin  of  Shavvfield,  505 

Gateshead,  pestilence  at,  480,  481 

Geneva,  Duke  of  Hamilton  in, 
171,  174,  193,  337,  338,  341, 
346,  349,  353,  355,  357,  358, 
360,  361,  366,  374,  402,  422, 
423,  424,  427  ;  fete  on  Lake  of, 
374  ;  picture  of  society  in,  375  ; 
citizens  of,  379 ;  description  of 
the  coronation  fStes,  380,  381 

Genoa,  189,  215,  525 

Gentltinans  Magazine,  notes  ex- 
tracted from  the,  64 

George  II.,  King,  219,  224,  225, 
226,  228  ;  letter  to  Prince 
Frederick  of  Wales,  222 

George  III.,  King,  224,  227,  253, 
254,  259,  310,  311,  312,  313, 
448 

Greorge  IV.  first  Gentleman  in 
Eiu-ope,  227 

George,  Prince,  224,  280,  284 

George  6th  Duke  of  Argyll,  476 

Georgina,  Duchess  of  Devonshire, 
satirical  account  of  life  at 
Chats  worth,  314 

Germaine,  Lord,  142 

(German  Courts,  small,  274 

Germany,  new  home  for  Princess 
Augusta,  227  ;  View  of  Society 
and  Manners  in,  329  ;  Duke  of 
Hamilton's  visit  to,  402 

"  Germany,"  the  title  of  Mme.  de 
Stael's  book,  565 

Gibbon,  the  English  historian,  562 

Gladstone's  Administration,  178 

Glams,  73 

Glasford,  Mr.  G.,  504,  505,  506, 
508,  509,  510,  512 

Glasgow,  65,  352,  426 

Glasgow,  Earl  of,  9,  30 

Glassell,  John,  letters  to,  483-489 

Glasseli,  Miss,  letter  from  Mrs. 
Grant  the  author,  about  Lord 
Jolin  Campbell's  character,  632  ; 
letter  from  Lord  John  Campbell, 
634;  letters  to  Miss  H.  F.  Cadell, 
639,645;  description  of  Swiss 
and  Italian  scenery  by,  639- 
644  ;  description  of  Paris  by, 
646 


Glassell,  Mrs.,  483,  635 

Glasseli,     William,     letters     from 

Virginia,  483-489,  490,  491 
Glenaray  Militia,  72 
Glencairn,  Earl  of,  29 
Glendarupl,  parish  of,  437 
Glenenchay,  parish  of,  463 
Glengarry,  63 
Glenrae,  638 
Glentrus,  68 

Glenure,  under  the  commandof,  68 
Gloucester,  Duchess  of,  letter  to 

Duchess  of  Argyll,  21 1 
Gloucester,  Duke  of,  209,  242,  245 
Godolphin,    Queen    Anne's    Lord 
Treasurer  and  Prime  Minister, 
letters  from  the  collection  of  the 
Duke  of  Leeds,  the  representa- 
tive of,  1  ;  present  at  the  birth 
of    Princess    Augusta,     29 ;     a 
letter  among  his  papers,  53 
Goncourt,  Monsieur  de,  564 
Gower,  Lady,  131,  135,  136,  242, 
243,    244,    252,    254,    271,    272, 
273,  309,  313,  318  ;    letter  from 
Duchess    of    Devonshire,    314- 
317  ;    letter  from  an  unknown 
gentleman     from     Paris,     321  ; 
her  sister  E.  S.,  414,  415 
Gower,  Lady  Anno,  136,  178 
Gower,  Lord,   137,  228,  243,  305, 

308,  318,  321,  322 
Gower,  Miss,  415 
Gordon,  Duchess  of,  321,  414,  665 
Gordon,  Duke  of,  414 
Gordon,  Lady  M.,  414 
Grafton,  Duchess  of,  297,  304,  305 
Grafton,  Duke  of,  136,  220 
Grafton,  Lady  Caroline,  323 
Graham,  Lieut.-Col.,  449,  450,  509 
Graham,  Mr.,  147,  440,  445 
Grandisson,  Lady,  268 
Granefeld,  239 
Grant,  Mrs.,  of  Laggan,  433 
Grant,    Mrs.,    the    author,    letter 

from,  632 
Granville,  Countess  of,  178 
Granville,  Lord,  124 
Gray,  Lord,  260 
Green,    Captain,    accused    of    and 

hanged  for  piracy,  7 
Green  Ribbon,  Order  of  the,  24 
Greenock,  James  Ewing  of,  92 
Greenwich,  borough  of,   1  ;    Eng- 
lish dukedom  of,  1 
GreeDwood,  439 


686 


INDEX 


Grenada,  Island  of,  204 
Grenadiers,    charge     of     French, 

498 
Grenville,  General,  257 
Grenville,  Mr.,  229,  380 
Grenville,  Mr.  George,  367,  3G8 
Grosvenor,  Mr.,  141,  142,  143 
Grosvenor,  S.,  502 
Gualachelish,  90 
Guards   in   Holland,   Brigade   of, 

494,  495 
Guignes,  Comte  de,  394 
Guine,  M.  de,  322 
Guises,  company  of,  71 
Gunning,  Captain,  352 
Gunning,  Col.,  85,  122,  244 
Gunning,  Elizabeth,  330 
Gunning,  English  family  of,  122 
Gunning,  Mrs.,  mother  of  Duchess 

of  Argyll,  244 
Gustavus  III.  of  Sweden,  563 

H.,  Lady,  176 

Habert,  Mme.  Rellict,  555 

Haddington,  Earl  of,  24,  38,  54  ; 
his  brother,  154 

Hague,  the,  428 

Halberstadt,  254 

HaUfax,  Lord,  297 

Ham  House,  near  Richmond,  2 

Hamilton  of  Hamilton,  Baroness, 
248 

Hamilton,  Duke  of,  courtier  with 
King  Charles  and  King  James, 
3,  6,  28,  30,  32,  34,  49,  50,  55, 
60,  61 

Hamilton,  Duke  of  (husband  of 
Elizabeth),  121,  123,  146,  147, 
161,  168,  169,  171,  179,  ISO, 
182,  183,  188,  194,  259;  death 
of  eldest  son  of,  243 

Hamilton,  Duke  of  (son  of  Eliza- 
beth), 303,  309,  329-348,  378, 
386,  395,  401,  409,  418,  429, 
430,  431,  432  ;  his  allowance, 
349,  350  ;  his  wardrobe,  351  ; 
extravagance  of,  376,  377  ;  Dr. 
Moore's  views  on  the  wife  for 
the,  391,  392 ;  reason  for  visiting 
Italy,  405 
Hamilton,  Douglas  Duke  of,  329, 

331,  442 
Hamilton,  9th  Duke  of,  442 
Hamilton  and    Argyll,    Elizabeth 
the   beautiful   Duchess    of,    97, 
98,  101,  106,  108,  116,, 119,  122, 


123,    125,    131,    135,    136,    164, 
198,   231,   272,    292.    294,    296, 
301,    303,    304,    306,    307,    308, 
329,  333,  334-346,  349,  352,  356, 
357,    361,    363,    365,    366,    367, 
370,    373,    375,    378,    379,   382, 
387,    394,    396,    398,    399,   401, 
409,   410,    413,    418,    420,    422, 
427,  429,  430,  431,  432  ;   death 
of,   97,  215  ;    quarrel  with  the 
Queen,  124;  poem  by,  128,  129; 
letter  from  the  Queen  about  the 
Douglas  Case,  134;  anonymous 
letter  to  the,   208  ;    last  letter 
of  the  Duchess  of,  215,  216 
Hamilton,  Ladies   Charlotte    and 
Augusta,    124,    200,    206,    207, 
215,  217,  245 
Hamilton,  Lord  Archibald,  162 
Hamilton,  Lord  George,  446,  447 
Hamilton,  Major,  128,  154 
Hamilton,  Sir  James,  153,  161 
Hamilton,  Sir  William,  Envoy  at 

Naples,  417,  421,  422,  423 
Hamilton,  Solicitor,  202,  203 
Hamilton  Palace,  243 
Hamilton,  town  of,  173 
Hampton   Court,    217,    219,    221, 

222 
Hanover,  252,  253,  256,  297,  393  ; 

to  be  invaded,  232 
Harcourt,  Lord,  225,  226 
Hardy,  Sir  Charles,  197,  198,  200, 

201 
Harley,  Sir  J.,  164 
Harries,  partner  in  Argyll  furnace, 

93 
Harris,  Mr.,  393 
Harrogate,  638 
Hart,    Emma,    afterwards    Lady 

Wm.  Hamilton,  417 
Hart,  Sir  Wm.,  440 
Harwich,  on  the  road  to,  230 
Hassenhausen,     the    French     be- 
tween Spielberg  and,  236 
Hauss,  Regiment  of,  234 
Havre,  troops  from,  199 
Hawkins,   Mr.,    sewing   up    Lady 

Holderness'  face,  209 
Hawley,  General,  65,  66 
Hay,  Lord  John,  647 
Hayes,  Mr.  Pitt's  place  at,  228 
Haynes,  offer  of  £200  to  confess 

piracy  to,  12 
Helder,  expedition  to,  495,  496 
Helensburgh,  pestilence  at,  481 


INDEX 


687 


Helensburgh  Post  Office,  474 
"  H^loise,"  Rousseau's,  375 
Helvoetsluys,  Holland,  230 
Hemans,  letter  from  Mrs.,  662-665 
Henry,  Prince,  269,  272,  280 
Henry,   son   of  Countess   of   Dal- 
keith, 290 
Hepburn,  Tom,  667 
Hereford,  Lord,  177 
Herries  Farquhar  &  Co.,  514,  532 
Herring  fishing,  going  to  the,  658 
Hertford,  Lady,  165,  293,  297 
Hertford,  Lord,  101 
Hertfords,  the,  139 
Hervey,  Lord,  219,  220 
Hervey,  Mrs.,  271 
Hesse,  Prince  Frederick  of,  251 
Hill  Street,  Lord  Warwick's  house 

in,  304 
Hobart,  Lord,  450,  457  ;    circular 

of,  458,  459,  463 
Holderness,  accident  to  Lady,  209 
Holderne.ss,  Lord,  386 
Holderness,  the,  298 
Holland,  230,  234,  303,  477,  494 
Holy  Trinity,  Spanish  ship,  206 
Hopburne,  446 

Houstoun's  son,  Mr.  Alex.,  151 
Hozay,  advance  on  and  taking  of, 

234 
Hungary,       Prince       Esterhazy's 

house  in,  407 
Hunter,  Dr.,  371 
Huntington,  Lord,  136 
Hyndford,  Earl  of,  161 

Icolmkill,  ruins  of  monastery  of, 
92 

Influenza  in  Edinburgh,  etc.,  447  ; 
in  Virginia,  492 

Insanity  of  King  George  III., 
attacks  of,  226 

Inverary,  64,  69,  72,  74,  75,  76, 
87,  97,  149,  150,  155,  156,  171, 
173,  188,  201,  202,  207,  210, 
256,  270,  335  ;  population  of,  95 

Inverary,  Provost  of,  letter  to,  63 

Inveraws,  Colonel,  73 

Invernakeil,  the  steward  of,  68 

Inverness,  70 

lona,  population  of,  95 

Ireland,  enemy's  troops  to  be 
landed  in,  199;  Lady  Carlisle 
pleasing  so  much  in,  275 

Irish  herald,  126 

Irwen,  Lady,  293 


Island  of  Mull,  James  Campbell's 
letter  dated  from,  63 

Islay,  Earl  of,  64  ;  par.amount  in- 
fluence in  Scotland  of  Lord,  4 

Islay  girls,  the,  665 

Islay,  Johnny  Campbell,  6(i5 

Italy,  King  of  Sweden  going  to, 
255 ;  View  of  Society  and 
Manners  in,  329 ;  women  in, 
402 

J.,  12 

Jacobinical  malignity,  565 

Jacobites'    opinion    of   John    2nd 

Duke  of  Argyll,  5 
Jacobito  Party,  53 
Jacobite  Wars,  documents  relating 

to,  63 
James  II.,  King,  61,  224 
James  VI.,  68 
James's  powder,  407 
Jarden,  Mr.,  373 
Jena,    battle    of,    234  ;     fugitives 

from  the  battle  of,  239 
Jennings,  the  maiden  housekeeper. 

Miss,  655 
Jersey,  Lady,  659 
Jesse's    description    of    Duke    of 

Brunswick's  departure,  229 
John,  2nd  Duke  of  Argyll,  Fore- 
word to  letters  from,  1 
Johnson,  Dr.,  97 
Johnson,    Dr.    Samuel,    letter    to 

Mr.  Allen,  650 
Johnson,  Mr.,  249 
JohiTston,  Sir  Patrick,  attempt  to 

break  open  the  doors  of  house 

of,  51,  55 
Jordyce,  W.,  letter  to  Duchess  of 

Argyll,   198 
Joseph  II.,  Emperor  of  Austria, 

244 
Jungheim,  251 

Knhlsberg,  238 

Kanach,  Fort,  68 

Keck,  Miss,  177 

Keith,  Lord,  252 

Keith,  Sir  Robert,  274,  276,  278, 

279,  280,  287,  403,  404 
Kelmore,  John  Campbell  of,  90 
Kendal  and  Company,  93 
Kennochan,  68 
Kensington,  136,  304 
Kensington      Palace,      death      of 

George  II.  in,  225 


688 


INDEX 


Keppoch,  63,  68 
Kew,  Lady  H.,  sent  for  to,  166 
Keymberg,  bathing  at,  256 
Kilbrandan,  parish  of,  463 
Kilcamoor,  73 
Ivilchenich,  parish  of,  74 
Kilclirunan,  parish  of,  463 
Kilhecrankie,     Lord     Leven     dis- 
tinguishes himself  in  battle  of, 
65 
Kilninver,  parish  of,  463 
Kilsyth,  66 
Kimbolton,  305,  655 
King  of  France,  the,  648 
Kingston,  Duchess  of,  177 
Kingston,  Duke  of,  176 
Kinlochmoydart,  75 
Kinsky,  Princess,  298,  301 
Kintyre,  86  ;    population  of,  95 
"  Kitty,"      youngest      sister      of 

Duchess  of  Argyll,  244 
Kleist,  Colonel,  241 
Klenan,  Colonel,  235 
Knaresborough,  303 
Knock's,  Donald,  generous  action, 

635 
Knockbuiy,  437 
Knowle,  309 
Knowsley,  276 
Kokeritz,  Colonel,  235 
Koscheloff,  Madame  de,  536 
Koiu-atim,  a  Russian  Prince,  278 
Kownitz   (Kaunitz),   Prince,    274, 

276,  404,  407 
Krippendorf,  the  guide,  241 

L.,  Lord,  175,  208 

L.,  Madame  la,  393 

L.,  Mrs.,  robbed  by  highwaymen, 

166,  167 
Lacy,  General,  279 
Lafayette  in  America,  581 
Lagan,  88 

Laggan,  Mrs.  Grant  of,  433 
Laggan,  Ulva,  91 
Lake  of  Bienne,  519 
Lake  of  Geneva,  bathing  in,  342, 

343  ;    fetes  on  the,  344 
Lake  of  Neuchatel,  519 
La  Maire,  Godefroys,  110 
Lamballe,  Princesse  de,  374 
Lambert,  Sir  John,  425 
Lambert,   the   banker.   Sir  John, 

192,  193 
Lambton,  Ann,  655 
Lammont's  vote,  438 


Lanark,  state  of  parties  in  the 
county  of,  155  ;  election  for  the 
county  of,  160,  163,  168,  169, 
178;  'list  of  freeholders  of,  152; 
Michaelmass  Court  held  at,  149, 
151 

Lancashire,  Lord  Lieutenantof,  248 

Landen,  Mr.,  637 

Landgrave  of  Hesse,  251 

Langleben,  246 

Lasoaris,  Count,  261 

Lauderdale,  Duchess  of,  2 

Lauderdale,  Lord,  29 

Lausanne,  257,  344,  355,  385,  398, 
519;  Duchess  of  Brunswick's 
sons  returning  to,  272  ;  vulgar 
and  awkward  people  of,  385 

Lauter,  river,  235 

Laxenberg,    Palace    of,    404,    407 

Leather,  Act  for  hindering  im- 
portation of  foreign,  36 

Le  Brun,  518 

Leeds,  Duke  of,  letters  from  col- 
lection of,  1 

Legge,  Miss,  293 

Leicester  House,  223,  224,  301,  306 

Leicester,  Miss,  fancy  name  Prin- 
cess Augusta,  131,  132 

Leipzig,  389 

Leith,  Colonel,  655 

Lekain,  Henri  Louis,  the  famous 
tragedian,  344 

Lennox,  Captain,  510 

Lennox,  Lady  Sarah,  267 

Leopold,  Prince,  259 

Letters,  franking  of,  314 

Levee,  birthday,  451 

Leven,  Lord,  Foreword  to  letters 
from,  to  Lord  Godolphin,  L  ; 
letters,  5,  10,  44,  46,  47,  48,  49, 
52,  55,  57, 

Levenside,  448,  510 

Leveson,  little,  318 

Levison,  Lord  Granville,  655 

Levonian  noblemen,  344 

Lichtenstein,  Princess,  278 

Liege,  109,  130,  271 

Ligonier,  Lord,  293 

Limerick,  safe  arrival  of  East 
India  ships  in  river  at,  203 

Limitations  to  Treaty  of  Union,  62 

Lincoln,  Lady,  293 

Lincoln,  Lord,  285 

Lindsy,  Lord,  385 

Linen  and  woollen  manufactures, 
36 


INDEX 


689 


Linlithgow,  65,  66,  118,  170 

Lister,  General,  446 

Livingston,  Rlr.,  274 

Lloyd,  Miss,  272 

Loch  Awe,  G59 

Loch  Dhu,  659 

Lochead,  73 

Locheill,  63 

Lochiel,  letter  of,  68 

Loch  Lomondside  freeholders,  510 

Lochnagaul,  88 

Lock,  Mr.,  355,  371 

Lock,  Mrs.,  368,  372 

Lockhart,  Captain,  181,  183,  184 

Lockhart,  Mr.  Ross,  162,  163 

Locknells,  supper  at  Mrs.,  657 

Lockwitz,  Prince,  407 

Lord  Mayor  of  London,  501 

Lome,  Marquis  of,  101 

Lome,  Lord,   106,   107,   109,   112, 

114,    124,    137,    175,    208,    214, 

243,    244,    259,    292,    409,    435, 

437,  469,  506,  507,  515 
Lorraine,  265 

Lothian,  Marquess  of,  24,  38 
Louvre,  the,  515 
Love   affairs   of   young    Duke    of 

Hamilton,  340 
"  Love    and    Reason,"    a    poem, 

675,  676 
Lowdan,  Earl  of,  34,  35,  37,  65, 

66,  70 
Luckan,  Lady,  322 
Lumsdon,  Mr.,  667 
Lyon,  213,  337,  427 
Lyttelton,  Lord,  308,  319 

M.,  Lady,  268 
MacCuIlum,  Grace,  86 
MacDonald  of  Castlesemple,  150 
MacDougall,  Alex.,  letter  to  Don- 
ald Campbell,  95 
MacDougalls  of  DunoUy,  the,  635 
Macfarlane,  85 
Mackay,  the  Regiments  of,  5 
Mackenzie,  Lady  Betty,  655 
Mackinnon,  Archibald,  93,  658 
MacLean,     John,     Tacksman     of 

Bunessan,  90 
MacLean  of  Ardgour,  Lieut.-Col., 

450 
MacLeans  of  Mull,  74 
MacNiven,  James,  Tacksman,  89, 

90 
MacNulten,  John,  462 
MacPherson,  Archibald,  89 


MacPherBon,  Mary,  470 
MacTavish,  minister  of  Torosay, 

90 
MacVicar,  Niei,  73 
Maden's  system  on  polagamie,  251 
Madras,  139 
Magdeburg,  388,  398 
Malcolm,  Neil,  462 
Mnlplaquet,  battle  of,  4 
Mann,  Admiral,  205 
Mann,  Sir  Horace,  416 
Mansfield,  Lord,  97,  98,  306,  432 
Mar's  rebellion  in  1715,  4 
March,  Lord,  297 
March,  Miss,  271 
Marchmont,  Earl  of,  29 
Marcia,  the  part  of,  in  Addison's 

play  Cato,  324 
Margaret,      daughter      of      Lord 

Derby,  385,  386 
Maria,  Duchess  of  Gloucester,  21 1 
Maria,  Lady  A.,  285 
Marie  Antoinette,  Queen,  322,  557, 

563 
Marie,  handwriting  of  the  servant, 

110 
Mark,  Monsieur  Barflour  do  la,  273 
Marlborough,  Duchess  of,  226,  308 
Marlborough,  Duke  of,  39,  58,  89, 

117,  226,  293,  308 
Marlborough's   campaign   against 

the  French  in  1706,  3 
Marr,  Earl  of,  24,  37,  38,  40 
Marseille,  213 
Marshall,  Lord,  27 
Martinique,  expedition  from,  204 
Massenbacli      on     Ferdinand     of 

Brimswick,  234 
Massey,  Miss,  293 
Master  of  Household,  Hereditary, 

25 
Mastricht,  272 
j\Iatherson's  letter,  475 
Maudrio,  Moses,  379 
Mawhood,  Colonel,  175 
Mayo,  an  Irish  Earl,  122 
Mayo,  daughter  of  the  Earl,  245 
McRean,  Mr.,  637 
McCall,  Mrs.,  letter  to,  658 
McDanicll,    an    Irish    cheat    and 

impostor,  K 
Mcllroylo,  Dugald,  72 
McKindlay,  Robert,  474 
Meadows  family,  176 
Mecklenburg,    Prince   Gr«orge    of, 

277 


690 


INDEX 


Mecklenburg,  Princess  of,  249,  253 

Mecklenburg,    Queen    Charlotte's 
amval  from,  229 

Mediterranean,  troops  for  the,  441 

Menzies  Castle,  299 

Menzies  of  Glasgow,  relations  of 
Baillie,  470 

Merman,  a,  650-652 

Meurice  Hotel  in  Paris,  645,  646 

Michells,  Monsieur  and  Madame, 
110 

Mignon,  peasant  boy,  115 

Milan,  189,  416,  421,  422,  427 

Milford  frigate,  the,  197 

Miller's     access     to     Palace     at 
Hamilton,  Mr.,  152 

Millerie,  rocks  of,  375 

Milton,  Lord,  94 

Minden,  fortress  of,  232 

Minden,  the  name  on  the  colours 
of  six  English  Regiments,  232 

Minorca,  426 

Miroaux,  Mme.  de,  531 

Modena,  Grand  Duke  and  Duchess 
of,  412 

Mohun,  Lord,  344,  380 

Moira,  Lord,  449,  465,  466,  468 

Mollet,  Captain,  510 

Monasteries  of  men  and  women, 
278 

Monkton,  General,  142 

Monmouth's  invasion  of  Scotland, 
2  ;    companion,  61 

Montague,  Lady  Fanny,  297 

Montague,  W.,  177 

Mont    Blanc,    first     climber     of, 
477,  522 

Montmorenci,  Mathieu  de,  581 

Montreal,     Canada,     145 ;      Lord 
Amherst's  place  in  Kent,  145 

Montrose,  Duke  of,  503,  504,  505, 
506,  508 

Montrose,  Lord,  13,  34,  35,  54,  55 

Montroses,  the,  299 

Monzie  (Argyllshire),  463 

Moore,  Dr.,  123,  259,  329,  334, 
335,  336,  338,  342,  344,  345, 
346,  349,  350,  351,  352,  353, 
354,  355,  356,  357,  360,  361, 
362,  363,  365,  366,  367,  370, 
373,  375,  379,  382,  385,  387, 
396,  398,  399,  403,  406,  408, 
410,  413,  420,  422,  427,  429 
Moore,  Mr.,  189,  192,  193 
Moore,  Mrs.,  334,  338,  356,  373, 
403,  409,  429 


Moore,  Sir  John,  123,  153,  259, 
387,  389,  408,  426 

Moore's  philosophy  of  pleasure, 
452 

Moravia,  404 

Mordaunt,  Brigadier,  66,  67 

Morellet,  Abbe,  646 

Morton,  Lady,  267,  288,  358 

Morton,  Lord,  274,  285,  355 

Morvern,  64,  89,  91,  93  ;  popula- 
tion of,  95 

Mountstuart,  Lord,  146 

Moyhull,  73 

Mull  of  Kantyre,  665 

Mull,  population  of,  95 ;  house- 
hold system  introduced  in,  437  ; 
tenants,  437 

Munich,  283  ;   letters  from,  276 

Munson,  Lord,  354 

Munson,  Mr.,  354 

Mure,  Baron,  Trustee  and  legal 
Tutor  to  young  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton, 96,  107,  108,  145,  146, 
173,  345,  ;J«0,  367,  368,  370, 
378,  395,  418,  449  ;  letters  to 
Duchess  of  Argyll,  153,  186 

Mure,  Bessie,  636 

Mure,  Mrs.,  373 

Murray,  Colonel,  502 

Murray,  family  name  of  Lauder- 
dale, 2 

Murray,  Lady,  275 

Murray,  Lord  John,  65,  71 

Murray,  Mr.,  of  Albemarle  Street, 
665 

Musgrave,  Lord  William,  303 

Mylne,  old,  455 

Nabob,  the,  138,  139 

Nairn,  Sir  David,  12,  25,  28,  38, 

395 
Naples,  215,  296,  402,  403,  416 
Napoleon.      See  Buonaparte  and 

Stael,  de 
Nasmith,  Bonamis  and,  455 
Nearn  House,  73 
Neblingen,  241 
Necker,     Monsieur,     523,      636 ; 

father  of  Mme.  de  Stael,  557 
Nelson    and    Buonaparte,    action 

between,  327 
Nelson's    victory    over    Napoleon 

oii  the  Island  of  Candia,  327 
Neppach,  Woods  of,  237 
Netherhowgate,  Edinburgh,  56 
Neuchatel,  Lake  of,  519 


INDEX 


691 


Neville  family.  341,  355 

Neville,  Mr.,  100 

Newbattle,  Lord  Ancrum's  place, 

453 
Newcastle,  66,  71,  197 
Newcastle,  Duke  of,  60,  228 
Newmarket,  304 
New  Party,  18,  29,  30 
New  York,  299 
Nice,  271 

Nisbet  of  Carfin,  153 
Niven,    Alexander,   Tacksman   of 

Achacharn,  90 
Nobson,  Mrs.,  Duke's  attachment 

to,  385 
Norfolk,  Duchess  of,  301 
Norfolk  House,  Prince  Frederick 

of  Wales  being  in,  223 
Nors  (North),  Lord,  333 
North,  Lady,  309 
North,  Lord,  Prime  Minister,  97, 

139,    140,    142,    147,    148,    155, 

156,  157,  169,  171,  208,  309 
Northamptonshire,    member    for, 

141 
Northumberland,  Duchess  of,  172 
Northumberland,  Lady,  294 
Nova  Scotia  given  to  England,  232 
Nuneham,  King  and  Queen's  visit 

to,  225 

O's,  the,  268 

Oban,  659 

O'Brien,  Lady  Susan,  267 

Offensen,     where     the     Duke     of 

Brunswick  died,  241 
Oflfingham,  Lady  and  Lord,  247 
Ogilvie,  failure  of  Ross  and,  439 
Ohio,  232 

Orange,  Prince  of,  61 
Orange,  Princess  of,  246,  269,  272 
Orangery  at  Kensington  Palace,  3 
Ormonde,  Lady  and  Lord,  472 
Orrery,  Earl  of,  24,  38 
Orvilliers,  d',  198 
Osnabruck,  Bishop  of,  353 
Oxford,  ceremony  at,  225 
Oudenarde,  battle  of,  4 

P.,  Miss,  175;  her  sister  Mary,  175 

Paccheroti,  287 

Paget,  Lady  Augusta,  635 

Paget,  Mr.,  520 

Palatinate,     Court     of     Vienna's 

pretensions  to,  265 
Palatinate,  Elector  of,  265 


Palmerston's  Administration, 

Lord,  178 
Panton,  Mrs.,  305 
Paris,  101,  189,  194,  297,  321,  402, 
416,   420,   422,   425,    426,    428, 
515,  516,  6'i6 
Parliament,  attempt  to  break  into 
the  House  of,  50  ;    approving 
Government's    steps     for    sur- 
pressing  the  tumult,  51 
Parliament  of  Paris,  101 
Parties,  summary  of  the  character 

of  the,  60 
Party,  Coiart,  00 ;  Country,  60,  62 ; 
Cavalier,  00  ;  Flying  Squadron, 
61 
Pechill,  Mrs.,  217 
Peeress,  Duchess  of  Argyll  made 

an  English,  248 
Peers,  eldest  sons  of  Scottish,  442 
Peggy,  270 

Pelham,  Miss,  136,  310 
Penn,      Lady,      confined      of      a 

daughter,  167 
Pembroke,  Lady,  252,  253 
Pembroke,  Lord,  305 
Pepys,  Sir  Lucas,  313 
Percy  in  Verdun  prison,  530 
Perth,  rebels  retiring  to,  67 
Perthshire,  Lord  North  in,  147 
Pestilence  in  Gateishead,  480  ;    in 

Helensburgh,  481 
Petten  in  Holland,  497,  498 
Pettier,  Monsieur,  103 
Pheasants,  trial  of,  448 
Phemie,  Lord  Galway's  daughter, 

338 
Philadelphia,  Congress  at,  213 
Philip,  Lady,  323 
Philip,  Lord  John,  323 
Phillipson,  Captain,  176 
Piemont,  about  the  family  of,  264 
Pietet,  Monsieur,  348 
Pincieux,  Monsieur  and  Madame, 

111 
Piracy     charge     against    English 

ship,  3,  6 
Pirmont,    Duchess   of   Brunswick 

at,  248,  250 
Pitt,  Miss  Anne,  298 
Pitt,  Mr.,  228,  232,  326  ;    debate 

on  French  War,  524 
Placentia,  422 

Plymouth,  fleets  in  and  off,  195, 
196,  198;  harbour  blocked, 
200  ;  Sir  Charles  Hardy  at,  201 


692 


INDEX 


Polagamie,  Mr.  Maden's  system 
on,  257 

Polignac,  Comte  de,  213,  364 

Pope's  message  to  Austrian  Em- 
peror, 280 ;  visit  to  Vienna,  286 

Poppel,  height  of,  237 

Population  of  Argyll  Estates,  95 

Portland,  Duke  of,  440 

Portpatrick,  468 

Portsmouth,  205,  207,  441 

Potsdam,  General  Boyd  at,  255  ; 
review  at,  388  ;  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton's visit  to,  400,  401 

Powis,  Lady,  165,  175 

Prague,  279,  399,  401,  403,  404 

Praslin,  Duke  of,  100,  102,  105 

President  of  the  Court  of  Sessions, 
332 

Preston,  177 

Pretender  meeting  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton in  Rome,  415 

Pretenders,  the  begetting  of,  421 

Prince  Henry,  269,  272,  280 

Prince,  Hereditary,  219 

Prince  Regent,  68,  227 

Princess  Royal,  227 

Protestant  line,  proposal  for 
limitation  of  succession  in  the, 
26,  27 

Prussia,  Hereditary  Princess  of, 
389 

Prussia,  King  of,  244,  399,  401  ; 
death  of,  257 ;  order  to  his 
clergy,  258 

Prussia,  Prince  and  Princess  of, 
400 

Prussia,  Treaty  between  England 
and,  232 ;  religion  in,  258 ; 
sentiments  of,  265 

Prussian  Army,  123  ;  victory  at 
Crefeld,  231 

Pulteney,  General,  297 

Purr  Corner  at  Hampton  Court, 
217 

Push  pin,  the  innocent  game  of, 
224 

Quary,  Mr.,  91 

Quatre-Bras,   death    of    Duke   of 

Brunswick  at,  227 
Queen  Anne's  Lord  Treasurer,  1  ; 

signature  of  Treaty  of  Union,  3  ; 

dying,  4  ;    brother,  4 
Queen  Charlotte,  209  ;  her  illness, 

256;  herrequests,  311,  312,  313 
Queen  Dowager  of  Prussia,  257 


Queen     of     Denmark,     Caroline 

Matilda,  246,  252,  388 
Queen  Marie  Antoinette,  322,  557, 

563 
Queen  Victoria,  78 
Queenites,  654 
Queensberry,  Duke  of,  10,  11,  21, 

22,  23,35,  37,  61,  113,  114,  115, 

147 
Quin,  the  actor,  224 

R.,  W.,  letter  to  Mr.  W.  Farquhar, 

196 
Rair,  great  discomfiture  of  Came- 

Ua,  454 
Ramhead,    French    and    Spanish 

fleet  off,  200 
Ramsay's  model  boy's  character, 

666 
Ramsgate,  embarkation  at,  494 
Ramsy,  General,  39 
Randolph,  Mr.,  321 
Ranzini,  287 
Ratisbon,  Diet  of,  265 
Rawdon,  Lady  Charlotte,  468 
Read,  Catherine,  138 
Reburguil,  Chevalier  de,  434 
Recamier,  Mme.  de,  546 
Reform  Bill,  Scottish,  476 
Reinsdorf,  240 
Reisdorf,  239 

Rekhausen,  the  heights  of,  257 
Renfrewshire,      146,      150,      178; 

election,  367 
Reprieve  for  rest  of  Capt.  Green's 

crew,  12 
Reynolds,  Sir    J.,    Lady  Derby's 

portrait  painted  by,  248 
Rhine,  river,  265,  272 
Rhone,  river,  363,  365 
Rice,  Mr.,  260 

Richmond,  Duke  of,  193,  194 
Riddlehowhope,  634,  636 
Rigby,  Mr.,  298 
Riom,  University  of,  336,  337 
Rob      Roy,     letter      to      Baillie 

Buchanan,  649 
Robertson,  Mr.,  Lord  John  Camp- 
bell's companion  on  Continental 

tour,   518,   519,  520,   523,   526, 

546  ;  his  marriage,  546 
"  Robespierre  k  cheval,"  563 
Robinson,  Dr.,  452 
Rocca,  Mme.  de  Stael's  marriage 

with  young  M.  de,  566 
Rochefoucault,  Duke  of,  364 


INDEX 


693 


Rockingham,  Lady,  229 
Rodney,  Sir  George,  208 
Roebucks  and  does  in  Glon  Shira 

woods,  445 
Rome,  329,  330,  402,  413,  417,  424 
Rome,  King  of,  563 
Romney,   Lady   Derby's   portrait 

painted  by,  248 
Rosa,  Monte,  561 
Rosberry,  Lord,  438 
Rosconmion,  122,  244 
Roseneath,  86,  106,  107,  109,  120, 

135,    136,   243,   270,   294,   300, 

303,  356,  434,  448,  474,  476,  636  ; 

Colin  Campbell,  Chamberlain  of, 

92  ;   population  of,  95 
Ross  and  Ogilvie,  failure  of,  439 
Ross,  Lord,  23 

Ros3-McKye,Mr.,101,107,120,  145 
Rothsay,  Earl  of,  12,  54 
Roubillac's    monument    of    Duke 

John  of  Argyll,  4 
Rousseau,    Jean    Jacques,    "  Les 

Confessions    de,"    251  ;     "  H6- 

loise  "  by,  375  ;  letters  on,  563  ; 

"  Apologie  de,"  565 
Roxburgh,  6,  12,  54 
Rudesl,  General,  256 
Russell,  Lady  \V.,  655 
Russell,  Lord  J.,  208,  475 
Russia,  363 ;   mediation   between 

England  and  France,  524 ;  Mme. 

de  Stael  in,  560 
Russians  assisting  in  Dutch  cam- 
paign, 498 

Saale,  river,  236 
SackviUe,  Lord,  309,  312 
Sackville's,   Lord  George,   failure 

to  obey  orders,  232 
St.  Ann's  Yard,  174,  186 
St.  Asaph,  Lord,  285 
St.  Helens,  204 

St.  James's,  199,  201,  220,  281 
St.  James's  Palace,  229 
St.  James's  Square,  Norfolk  House 

in,  223 
St.  Lucia,  204 
St.  Martin's  Brook,  Holland,  499, 

500 
St.  Thomas,  family  of,  262 
Salisbury's  assembly.  Lady,  654 
Salle,  Madame,  343 
Sands,  Lord,  354 
Sandwich,  Lord,  205,  208,  305 
Sangerhausen,  239,  241 


Sans    Souci,    King    of    Prussia's 

palace,  399 
Sardinia,    accession    of    sovereign 

to  throne  of,  261 
Sardinia,  King  of,  264 
Sathcrwnith,  John,  93 
Satirical  account  of  Ufe  at  Chats- 
worth,  314 
Saussure,  M.  de,  259,  344,  477 
Saussure,    M.    de,     the    younger, 

letters  to  the  Duke  of  Hamilton, 

522-556,  561 
Savoy,  house  of,  374  ;   tour  to  the 

glaciers  of,  375 
Saxony,     Duchess     of     Kingston 

going  to,  177 
Saxony,  Elector  of,  400 
Saxony,  Electress  of,  177,  400 
Saxony,  Electress  Dowager  of,  400 
Saxony,  Princess  Elizabeth  of,  400 
Saye,  Lady,  296 
Scarboro',  137;    balls,  217 
Scawfield,  155 
SchalThausen,  519 
Schellenberg,  Mrs.,  386 
Scotch  Reform  Bill,  476 
Scots  Fusiliers,  65 
Scott,  Alex.,  letters  to  Duchess  of 

iVrgyll,  199,  200 
Scott,  Lady  Jane,  291 
Seatield,  Earl  of,  6,  61 
Secheron,  Lady  Beverley  at,  522 
Sedan,  109,  130 
Seirphein,  Archibald  Campbell  of, 

90 
Selkirk,  Lord,  12,  190,  191 
Sellon,  Mesdemoiselles,  530 
Sellon,  young  Mr.,  547 
Selwin,  Mr.,  298 
Sempil,  65 

Seven  Years  War,  231 
Severino,  Prince  San,  125,  127 
Shenstono,  Mr.,  308 
Sheriffmuir,    loft    wing   of   Stuart 

forces  shattered  at,  4 
Shuppach,  Dr.,  386 
Siddons,      Mrs.,       in      Greenock 

Theatre,  471 
Sigon,  uniform  of,  251 
"  Sin  rise,"  659 
Sinklar,  Angus,  72 
Sion,  298 
Sion  Hill,  301 
Skinner,  142 
Smith,     Lord     John     Campbells 

friend,  637,  638,  647 


694 


INDEX 


SmoUet,  Mr.,  448 

Somerset  House,  state  liouse- 
keeper  of,  244 

Sondes,  Lady,  304,  310 

Sophia  Matilda,  daughter  of 
Duchess  of  Gloucester,  211 

Soroba,  94,  95 

Soubise,  Prince  de,  102 

Soult,  123 

Southampton,  293 

Southampton,  Lord  and  Lady,  256 

Spa,  207,  265,  266,  268,  271,  272, 
278,  297,  303 

Spanish  admiral,  206 

Spencer,  Charlotte,  176 

Spencer,  Lady,  167 

Spielberg,  French  between  Has- 
senhausen  and,  236 

Spithead,  204,  441 

Spring  Gardens,  Princess  Augus- 
ta's house  in,  220 

Squadrone  Volante,  62 

Stael-Holstein,  Baron  de,  Swedish 
Ambassador  to  French  Govern- 
ment, 557 

Stael,  Madame  de,  523,  527,  540, 
542,  554,  555,  560,  561,  562, 
563  ;  description  by  Coleridge 
of,  571-575;  celebrities  found 
in  her  Salon,  576  ;  Lady  Char- 
lotte Campbell's  letters  on  the 
impressions  made  by  the  writ- 
ings of,  576,  577,  578;  Mr. 
Gill's  account  of  the  re-estab- 
lishment in  Paris  of,  579 ; 
Lady  Holland's  opinion  of,  579  ; 
letters  from, 581-629;  "Chanson 
des  Paysans  Suisses  "  by,  630, 
631 

Stafford,  Lady,  310,  311,  312,  313, 
322,  324,  325;  letter  to,  216 

Stafford,  Lord,  310,  311,  312,  324 

Stafford,  Washington's  brother  in, 
482 

Staffordsliire,  Lord  Frederick  go- 
ing to,  441 

Stairs,  Earl  of,  10,  21,  37 

Stanhope,  Colonel  the  Hon.,  432 

Stanhope,  Lord,  355,  380 

Stanley,  Miss,  177,  178 

Stanley,  Mr.,  175,  298 

Stannus,  Hector,  an  Irish  gentle- 
man, 473 

Star  Chamber,  476 

Stewart,  Colonel,  97 

Stewart,  Jack,  98 


Stewart,  Lady  Jane,  96,  97,  115, 
121 

Stewart,  Lady  Susan,  243,  290, 
292,  303,  3.30,  331,  332 

Stewart,  Mr.  Shaw,  150 

Stewart,  death  of  Sir  John,  107 

Stirling,  65,  66,  67,  115 

Stirlingshire,  503,  507 

Stockholm,  Mme.  de  Stael  in,  560 

Stonefield,  Archibald  Campbell  of, 
75 

Stowe,  Lord  Temple's  place,  297 

Strafford,  Earl  of,  290 

Strafford,  Lady,  295,  303 

Strathaven,  Lord,  323 

Strehtz,  281,  395,  396,  397  ; 
Prince  Charles  dying  at,  247 

Strehtz,  Duke  of,  396,  397 

Stromnachan,  73 

Stuart,  Andrew,  letters  relating  to 
Douglas  case,  96-98,  102,  106, 
108,  109,  112,  116,  119;  letters 
to  Duchess  of  Argyll,  140,  145, 
148,  155,  168,  173,  178,  189, 
192,  201,  203;  letters  about 
Parliamentary  election  and 
candidate,  162,  163,  337,  364, 
367,  370,  382,  395,  431 

Stuart,  Capt.,  of  Torrence,  161 

Stuart,  Keith,  154,  319 

Stuart,  Lieut. -Col.,  letter  to 
Duchess  of  Hamilton,  129 

Stuart,  Mr.  John,  115 

Stuart,  Sir  James,  154 

Stuart  succession,  60 

Stuart,  teacher  of  the  harpsi- 
chord, 212 

Studies  of  the  young  Duke  of 
Hamilton  in  Geneva,  343 

Sudbrook,  2 

Suffolk,  Lord,  157,  158,  164,  170, 
171  ;  letter  to  Duchess  of 
Argyll,  168 

Sunderland,  468 

Sundridge,  444 

Surtine,  Monsieur  de,  101 

Susa,  263 

Sutherland,  Dr.,  481 

Sutherland,  first  Duke  of,  243 

Sweden,  Gustavus  III.  King  of,  563 

Sweden,  King  of,  255,  273 

Swinburne,  quotation  from,  561 

Switzerland,  193,  401  ;  View  of 
Society  and  Manners  in,  329 

T.,  Lady,  208 


INDEX 


695 


Tacretine,  Madame,  525 

Talbot,  letter  from  Mrs.  Carter  to 

Miss,  225) 
Talleyrand,  Monsieur  de,  5IU,  5U0 
Tanjore,  Rajah  of,  I'.id 
Tankerville,  Lady,  228 
Tarbert,  85 

Taugnitz,  Prussians  fight  at,  237 
Tavistock,  Lady,  307,  308 
Temple  family,  299 
Temple,  Lord,  297 
Templeton,  Mr.,  413 
Terror,  prisoners  of  the,  564 
Tessichen,  Lord,  29 
Tewson,  Mr.,  447 
Texel,  Dutch  ships  in  the,  490,  499 
Thanet,  Lord,  309,  323,  324 
Thanksgiving,  public,  311 
Thiars,  Comte  de,  213 
Thiers,    "  History   of   the   Consu- 
late and  the  Empire,"  518 
Thomas,  loan  to  Mr.,  424 
Thurlow,  Lord,  318 
Thurlow,    Mr.,    afterwards    Lord 

Chancellor,  90,  97 
Thurot,  207 

Times,  paragraph  in  the,  227 
Tirol,  402 
Tissot,  Dr.,  385 
Tivoli  Gardens,  Paris,  046 
Tobago,   as  reward   for  invading 

Hanover,  232 
Tobermory  in  Mull,  75 
Tolcorse,  Garnkirk,  120 
Torloisks,  92 
Torosay,  Archibald  MacTavish  of, 

90,  91 
Torreau,  129 
Tournells     of     Paris,     procedure 

before  the,  99 
"  Toutie,"   Lady   Susan   Stewart, 

132,  232,  233 
Townshend,  Mr.,  142 
Townshend,  the  Marquesa  Charles, 

290 
Townshend,      the      Right      Hon. 

Charles,  290,  292,  294,  302 
Tracy,  Mr.,  who  married  "  Kitty," 

244 
Treaty,  consideration  of  the,  48 
Trentham,  308 
Trentham,  Lord,  270 
Treshnish,  74,  89,  90 
Trevor,  Mrs.,  273,  284,  285 
Triennial  Act,  33 
Tuileries,  Paris,  510 


Tunbridge,  291 

Turbio,  Monsieur  de  la,  540 

Turin,    189,    203,    290,    402,    415, 

410,  422,  423,  r,40,  547 
Turin,  letter  from,  201 
Turner,  Mrs.,  202,  203 
Tuscany,   son   of   Duke   of,    275 
Tweeddale,  Marquesa  of,    11,    12, 

47,  54,  01,  02 

Tweeddale's  peirty,  53 

Tyree,  73,  74,  75  ;  population  of, 
95  ;  petition  of  cottars  and 
small  crofters,  478,  479,  480 

Uist,  75 

Ulm  (Swabia),  519 

Union  of  England  and  Scotland, 
Oppo.sition  getting  up  an  ad- 
dress against  the,  52 ;  end 
of  correspondence,  02 ;  letter 
about  the  work  of  consolidating 
the,  63 

Upton,  Mr.,  355,  371 

Upton,  Mrs.,  341,  308,  372 

Utrecht,  Treaty  of,  232 

Valais,  Republic  of,  375 

Vurgennes,  lo  M'ir  de,  213 

Vauxhall,  fray  at,  105 

Venice,  279,  402,  420 

Verdun,    Englishmen    imprisoned 

at,  525 
Versailles,  378 
Vesuvius,  Mount,  290 
Vienna,  272,  273,  280,  284,  298, 

329,    401,    402,    403,    408,    410, 

411,  422,  425,  420,  428  ;  yoinig 
Duke  of  Hamilton  in,  193  ; 
Court  of,  pretensions  to  Upper 
Palatinate,  205 

"  View  of  Society  and  Manners  in 
Franco,  Switzerland,  (Jormany, 
and  Italy  "  by  Dr.  Moore,  329 

Villiers,  Caroline,  055 

Villi.>rs,  tiie,  208 

Vincennos,  518 

Virginia,  letters  from,  482  ;  Lord 
John  CanipbcU's  mother's  pro- 
perty in,  483 

Virginians,  232 

Viry'a  (Count),  disgrace,  cause  of, 
201-205 

Voltaire, Monsieur  de,  344,  304,407 

Volunteer  Bill,  debate  on,  44U 

Volunteer  corps  to  be  held  in 
readiness,  449 


696 


INDEX 


Votes,  loss  of  twenty  through  not 
granting  arrears  of  pensions,  26 
Vuy,  an  avocat  at,  262,  264 

W.'s,  Mr.  and  Mrs.,  Duke  of 
Hamilton  at,  385 

Waldegrave,  Countess  of,  137, 
211,  242,  245,  254 

Waldegrave,  Lord,  305 

Wales,  Frederick  Prince  of,  219, 
220,  221,  224,  254,  259  ;  death 
of,  224,  225 

Wales,  George  Prince  of,  after- 
wards George  IV.,  297,  658; 
birthday  of,  166 

Wales,  Augusta  Princess  of,  227, 
300  ;    left  widow,  225 

Walker,  John,  93 

Wallmoden,  Madame  de,  268,  274, 
277,  279,  284 

Walpole,  letter  of,  123  ;  his  de- 
scription of  Lady  Augusta,  sister 
to  George  III.,  225 ;  his  de- 
scription of  wedding,  227 

Walpole,  Miss,  215 

Walstein,  Countess  of,  406 

Warens,  Madame  de,  251 

Warren,  Dr.,  210 

Warwick,  208 

Warwick,  Lady,  304 

Warwick's,  Lord,  house  in  Hill 
Street,  304 

Washington,  death  of  old  Lady, 
493 

Washington,  General,  321  ;  letter 
from,  482  ;  his  stepson,  482  ; 
his  brother  in  Stafford,  482 ; 
his  family,  mention  of  in  letter, 
489-491 

Washington,  Warner,  mention  of 
in  letter,  483-489 

Waterloo,  papers  of  orders  found 
on  battle-field,  671  ;  letters 
from  Lord  Greenock  about,  671, 
672,  673,  674 

Wedderburn,  Colonel, Commander- 
in-Chief  at  Bombay,  159 

Wedderburn,  Mr.,  12 

Wedding  of  Hereditary  Prince  of 
Brunswick,  228 

Weir,  Mr.,  161,  162 


Weissenburg,  battle  of,  234 
Wemyss,  Major-General,  464 
Wentworth  Castle,  128 
Wentworth,  Earl  of  Strafford,  290 
Wentworth,  .Lady,  310,  311,  312 
Weser,  covered  with  ice,  234 
West  Indies,  loss  in  the,  204 
West  Loch  Tarbert,  665 
Westmoreland,  482 
Westmoreland,  Lady,  285 
Weymar,  Hotel  de,  239 
Weymar,  the  French  entering,  238 
Weymouth,  Countess  of,  199 
Whig  revolution,  62 
Whitworth,  Lord,  457,  517,  518 
Widow's  Cruise,  the,  655 
Wilke's  mob,  control  of  London 

by,  124,  125 
Wilks,  Mr.,  and  Opposition  Whigs, 

421 
WiUiam  III.,  King,  61 
William  IV.,  305 
Willis,  Dr.,  310,  311,  312 
Wilmington,  Lord  President,  219 
Wilton,  306 
Windsor,  312 
Wishaw,  120 
Witham,    Lord   Abercorn's   place 

in  Essex,  229,  230 
Woburn  Abbey,  308 
Wolfe's  commission,  124 
Woodburn,  James  Ferrier  at,  506 
Wreck  wine,  86 
Wrotsley,  308 
Wrotsley,  Miss,  301,  309 
Wurttembergs,  the,  275,  277 

York,  Duke  of,  126,  256,  260,  293, 
301,  457,  471,  498  ;  instruction 
for  volunteer  infantry  by  the,464 

York,  Duke  of,  and  Bishop  of 
Osnaburg,  252 

York  races,  132,  293 

Yorke,  Mr.,  117,  450 

Yverdun,  519,  520 

Zelle,  388 

"  Zeluco,"  Dr.  Moore's  novel,  329 

Zoutman's  public  letter,  207 

Zuider  Zee,  497 

Ziirich,  619,  527 


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